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  Clancy Holdout Juror Fight Just Reached the Judge 03.10.2026 1j 5mnt

  The Lindsay Clancy mistrial left one question hanging over everything: was the jury truly unable to reach a lawful verdict, or should the court have done more before ending the case? This combined episode opens with our before-the-hearing analysis with defense attorney Bob Motta, then shifts into special commentary on what actually happened at the September 29 Rule 25 hearing and the motion to un-impound juror information.Before that hearing, the focus was the lone holdout. Multiple jurors described an 11-to-1 split favoring a verdict of not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility. Foreperson Roni Carlson said the holdout acknowledged reasonable doubt but refused to join the verdict. Juror Nick Dargie said he repeatedly asked the man to identify evidence supporting his position and did not get an answer. The defense argues that sequence matters to whether Judge William Sullivan had a sufficient basis to declare a mistrial.On September 29, Kevin Reddington pushed a different route: Rule 25. He asked Sullivan to find Clancy not guilty because, in his view, the Commonwealth had not presented legally sufficient proof. Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham rejected that characterization and pointed to the evidence and stipulations already put before the jury.Martin Weinberg then argued over sealed jury notes and sidebar transcripts. The defense wants access because those records may become part of its double-jeopardy challenge and its claim that the holdout should have been examined more closely. Prosecutors say opening jury-room material too freely could damage the confidentiality that deliberations depend on.Sullivan did not grant an acquittal, dismiss the case, or order an immediate retrial on September 29. He continued the litigation to November 2. Bob Motta walks through what each motion can actually accomplish, what it cannot, and why the jury-room controversy is now a legal-record fight instead of just a post-trial argument.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 #HiddenKillersLive #BobMotta #ClancyTrial #Rule25 #KevinReddington #HoldoutJuror #Mistrial #DoubleJeopardy #TrueCrime
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  Kohberger Pleaded Guilty Six Days After WHAT?! 03.10.2026 29mnt

  Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty six days after Judge Steven Hippler denied his defense team more time, and the reason Anne Taylor gave for needing that time is now public. A sealed May 2025 filing said Kohberger was struggling to comprehend adverse rulings and rationally assess what those rulings meant for the direction of his case. The filing did not declare him incompetent. Taylor’s team expressly said it was not making that claim. Instead, the lawyers asked for time to investigate Kohberger’s ability to process consequential decisions and to get expert help communicating with him about how the case might end. Hippler rejected the continuance on June 26, 2025. On July 2, Kohberger stood in court and pleaded guilty to four first-degree murder counts for the deaths of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin, plus burglary. He told Hippler he understood the deal and was not being coerced. The agreement removed the death penalty, and Kohberger received four consecutive life sentences without parole plus ten years for burglary. Kohberger’s post-conviction case now asks the court to revisit that record. He alleges ineffective assistance and pressure from his former attorneys. His new counsel is also seeking Hippler’s disqualification, arguing the judge had already been told about the defense team’s concerns before accepting the plea. Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski for the legal collision at the center of this case: what a defense lawyer warned the judge about before the plea versus what Kohberger personally swore to when the plea was entered. The disqualification motion is set for argument October 15. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #IdahoMurders #BryanKohberger #HiddenKillersLive #KohbergerCase #AnneTaylor #StevenHippler #EricFaddis #PostConviction #IdahoFour #TrueCrime 
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  Caleb Flynn Told Police “NONE WHATSOEVER” About WHAT?! 03.10.2026 45mnt

  “None whatsoever.” That was Caleb Flynn’s answer when Detective Mike Morgan asked about problems in his marriage to Ashley Flynn. By the time jurors heard that interrogation, they had also heard Alleigha Botner read months of messages describing a relationship that looked nothing like the one Flynn presented to police. Botner testified that Flynn promised to leave Ashley again and again. The deadlines moved. He wrote about what he was willing to give up to be with Botner. He paired a demand for proof of love with the sentence “I’m not trying to manipulate you.” Other messages contained repeated hatred toward Ashley, discussion of wanting her dead, and a statement about thinking through ways to kill her and avoid jail. Botner acknowledged her own violent messages too and testified that she meant divorce when she pushed Flynn to make Ashley “gone.” Then came the police interview. Flynn’s phone had no messages from Ashley, and he said he deletes texts to save storage. He offered two strangers as possible suspects. He invoked church. He described a marriage without problems. Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to analyze the sequence — not as a magic lie detector, but as a look at what Flynn chose to explain, deny, and volunteer before investigators laid out everything they knew. At trial, Flynn’s lawyers argued an intruder killed Ashley and that the affair messages were crude fantasy and relationship management, not proof of homicide. Prosecutors argued the messages were part of a much larger evidentiary picture. On September 29, jurors convicted Flynn on all charged counts and firearm specifications. Sentencing is October 5. This episode is about the distance between the relationship Flynn described in that interview room and the one documented in his own texts. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillersLive #RobinDreeke #AlleighaBotner #CalebFlynnTrial #TippCityOhio #TrueCrime #PoliceInterrogation #MiamiCountyOhio 
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  From Caleb Flynn's Mistress to Lindsay Clancy's Legal Fight 03.10.2026 56mnt

  Two cases. Three reckonings after court. Caleb Flynn was convicted of aggravated murder — and his mistress Alleigha Botner read his death texts for over a year without saying a word. Could civil court hold her accountable?. In the Lindsay Clancy case, Kevin Reddington spent an entire trial on an insanity defense and now claims there's no evidence Clancy killed her children. And the one juror who held out against acquittal — the man who caused the mistrial — is being investigated at Reddington's request, his identity public, his own lawyer retained. This episode covers the fallout from both cases: the mistress who stayed silent, the attorney who changed the game, and the citizen who voted his conscience and paid for it. 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
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  Why the Lindsay Clancy Holdout Juror Needs a Lawyer 02.10.2026 20mnt

  One man on the Lindsay Clancy jury refused to acquit. Eleven others voted not guilty by reason of insanity. When the judge declared a mistrial, defense attorney Kevin Reddington told reporters the vote was for acquittal "minus one." He demanded the court investigate the holdout for misconduct. He identified the juror's gender publicly, narrowing the pool to three men. Media reported his name. His personal history landed in public view. The holdout retained his own attorney and released a statement saying he had no doubt about his position. A hearing on the investigation is scheduled for November 2. This segment asks whether this is advocacy or intimidation — and what message it sends to every woman who gets a jury summons for a high-profile case. 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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  Why Lindsay Clancy's Defense Completely Changed Course 02.10.2026 19mnt

  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
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  Why a Civil Lawsuit Could Reach Caleb Flynn's Mistress 02.10.2026 16mnt

  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
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  Caleb Flynn Met Her at Church, Made Her Wait 18 Months, Then Did THIS 02.10.2026 1j 2mnt

  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
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  Was Caleb Flynn’s Mistress Pressuring Murder — or Just a Divorce? 01.10.2026 20mnt

  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
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  Why Caleb Flynn’s Mistress Kept Believing a Man Who Gave Her Nothing 01.10.2026 23mnt

  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
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  A Psychotherapist on What Caleb Flynn Did to a 21-Year-Old Church Intern 01.10.2026 18mnt

  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
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  Richard Allen's 13 Months Alone Was Called This by the State's Own Lawyer 01.10.2026 1j 1mnt

  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
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  Richard Allen's Case Has No DNA, No Witness Who Picked Him, and Exactly This 30.09.2026 14mnt

  Defense attorney Bob Motta and I take on the part of Richard Allen's Delphi murders appeal that asks the simplest question: without the confessions, what is there?On September 21, 2026, Richard Allen's appeal lawyer told the Indiana Court of Appeals that no witness ever identified his client as the man in Libby German's video and that no DNA connects him to Abby Williams or Libby. The state did not argue otherwise. What it argued is that Allen's own words to police in 2017, placing himself on the trail and the bridge's first platform, are the most powerful evidence it has. A single unfired cartridge found between the girls, it added, ties him to the scene through his own pistol.Leeman attacked the cartridge match as junk science. William Tobin, the former FBI metallurgist Judge Frances Gull excluded, would have explained why a round found in a field can't be matched the way the state's examiner claimed, he told the panel. The state says the defense's other expert covered that ground and Tobin isn't qualified on firearms.Leeman's rebuttal was about a face. He held up the sketch Betsy Blair helped police draw of the man she saw on the bridge, a sketch the jury was never shown, and argued that Blair saw the killer and did not see Richard Allen. The state told the judges Blair identified the Bridge Guy image at trial, mostly by his clothing, and that a composite sketch is an investigative tool that can't identify or rule out a suspect.Bob explains what the judges meant every time they asked about harmless error, and why the search warrant fight came down to Allen's own 2017 statement. He also takes on what a defense attorney does with a case where the strongest witness against his client is the client.Allen is serving 130 years while the panel decides.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#DelphiMurders #RichardAllen #HiddenKillersLive #DelphiAppeal #AbbyAndLibby #BobMotta #BridgeGuy #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #TrueCrime #DefenseDiaries
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  Richard Allen's Lawyer Told Three Judges a Suspect's Hand Tattoo Matches This 30.09.2026 19mnt

  Defense attorney Bob Motta joins me for the part of Richard Allen's Delphi murders appeal his supporters have argued about for years and a jury never got to weigh: the Odinism theory, and the man at its center.At the Indiana Court of Appeals on September 21, 2026, Mark Leeman named Brad Holder, a man state police looked at in 2017 who has never been charged. Leeman said Holder's voice and appearance were flagged in tips that March, that police accepted a landfill time card as his alibi, and that state police later received something new.Holder, according to Leeman, had drawn a bind rune on his hand and published it, and that symbol matches the arrangement of sticks on Abby Williams. He described posts of girls posed as if dead with sticks across them. An officer asked to reopen the case, Leeman said, and his boss refused.The state says none of it belongs in front of a jury because Holder could not have been there. Deputy Attorney General Ellen Meilaender told the panel he was at work in Buffalo, Indiana, 25 miles from the trail, at 2:13 when the girls were confronted and at 2:32 when Libby German's phone went still. She added that the FBI's own analyst saw no clear runes in the sticks, and that the defense's ritual expert could not say what symbol they formed.Bob and I get into the rule that decides this, Indiana's direct-connection requirement for third-party suspects, and the question Judge Nancy Vaidik put to Leeman: was he asking three judges to reweigh evidence, or to fix an error?Allen is serving 130 years for the murders of Abby Williams and Libby German. The panel has the case under advisement, and a decision could come at any point in the months ahead.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#DelphiMurders #RichardAllen #HiddenKillersLive #DelphiAppeal #AbbyAndLibby #BobMotta #Odinism #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #TrueCrime #DefenseDiaries
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  Richard Allen's Doctor Found Him Like This and the State Fought to Keep Him There 30.09.2026 28mnt

  Defense attorney Bob Motta joins me for the part of Richard Allen's Delphi murders appeal that everything else depends on: the cell that produced the confessions. Allen's appeal was argued at the Indiana Court of Appeals on September 21, 2026, and his lawyer opened with what the prison's own psychiatrist saw on April 14, 2023.Allen's trial lawyers filed an emergency request on April 5, 2023, to get him out of Westville, writing that his conditions were like a prisoner of war's. Nine days later, according to Mark Leeman, the state filed its response, the psychiatrist walked into the cell and found Allen unable to communicate and covered in filth, and Judge Frances Gull denied the request without a hearing. The psychiatrist's own order put the onset of the breakdown at April 4 and started forced antipsychotic injections.Leeman's argument is that this is what coercion looks like when there's no interrogation room: a state that watches a man decompensate and argues to keep him in place. The state's argument is that Westville held him because a jail could not protect a man accused of killing two girls, that the unit's conditions were ordinary, and that Indiana courts have never called ordinary custody coercion.We talk through why Indiana puts the burden on the state to prove a confession was voluntary, and why Leeman says Judge Gull flipped that burden twice in her order. The judges kept asking one question: with no detective in the room, who exactly coerced Richard Allen?Allen has been serving 130 years since December 2024 for the murders of Abby Williams and Libby German. Three appellate judges are deciding whether the statements that convicted him should ever have reached a jury.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#DelphiMurders #RichardAllen #HiddenKillersLive #DelphiAppeal #AbbyAndLibby #BobMotta #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #TrueCrime #DefenseDiaries #TrueCrimePodcast
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  Inside Both of Caleb Flynn's Interrogations After Ashley Was Shot 30.09.2026 1j 4mnt

  Two interrogations on the same morning. Nine clips played back for the audience. Three segments covering every dimension of how Caleb Flynn sat in that room — what he brought, what the detective deployed, and where the story cracked. Retired FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke reads every moment.The performance: a phone wiped clean, a marriage described as problem-free, two strangers offered as suspects, and a church referenced as proof of character — the church where prosecutors allege the affair happened. The detective's game: Morgan closed every exit with evidence Caleb didn't know they had — the door forced from the inside, the shooter placed at the foot of the bed, the neighbor who'd already talked. The cracks: an accusation nobody made, a timeline that shrank under questioning, and a gun that disappeared from a truck console only the family knew about.Tony and Robin break down the craft and the collapse across all three segments.Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to all charges. He is presumed innocent.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #CalebFlynnInterrogation #CalebFlynnTrial #AmericanIdolMurder #TippCityOhio #RobinDreeke #MiamiCountyOhio #TrueCrime
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  Caleb Flynn Blurted Out WHAT Before Anyone Accused Him?! 29.09.2026 16mnt

  Robin Dreeke spent decades in the FBI watching people crack in rooms like this. He says the confession is not the moment — the cracks are. A number that changes. An answer nobody asked for. A fact that closes the circle.In Part 3 of the interrogation breakdown, Tony and Robin play three clips from the moments Caleb Flynn's story fell apart. The unprompted accusation — it feels like you guys are pointing it to me — when the detective was talking about paperwork. The timeline that went from two to five minutes down to five seconds when Morgan played it back. And the missing gun — Caleb's own handgun in his own truck, console open, gun gone, never recovered, known only to his children and his wife.Robin reads each moment in real time: what the detective was watching for, what the behavioral shift means, and why these three cracks told Morgan everything the story itself had been hiding.Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to all charges including aggravated murder. He is presumed innocent.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynnInterrogation #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #CalebFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #MissingMurderWeapon #TippCityMurder #MiamiCountyTrial #RobinDreeke #TrueCrime
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  What Detective Morgan Already Knew Before Caleb Flynn Sat Down 29.09.2026 24mnt

  Detective Mike Morgan walked Caleb Flynn through the evidence from the crime scene in their second interview. It sounded like he was giving a grieving husband updates. Robin Dreeke, retired FBI, says that is not what was happening. Morgan was deploying evidence and watching what Caleb did when each exit closed.Three clips, three moves. The garage side door was damaged but never latched — forced open from the inside, not the outside. The blood pattern in the bedroom put the shooter at the foot of the bed, standing exactly where Caleb said he stood when he went to check on Ashley. And when Caleb told Morgan to ask any neighbor whether they'd argued, Morgan told him they already had.Tony and Robin play each clip and break down the interrogation craft — what Morgan was actually testing with each reveal and what Caleb's flat responses told him. A detective knows what it means when a suspect agrees with evidence that should disturb an innocent person.Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder and all related charges. He is presumed innocent.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynn #CalebFlynnTrial #HiddenKillers #AshleyFlynnMurder #CalebFlynnInterrogation #DetectiveMorgan #TippCity #StagedCrimeScene #RobinDreeke #TrueCrime
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  Caleb Flynn Deleted Every Text Before He Walked Into This Room 29.09.2026 24mnt

  Caleb Flynn told Detective Mike Morgan his marriage was perfect. He said he deletes texts because his wife sends too many pictures. He brought two strangers to the table as suspects before the detective asked for one. He said they go to church. Retired FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke watched every second of these clips — and what he sees in that chair tells a different story than the one Caleb Flynn was selling.In Part 1 of the full interrogation breakdown, Tony and Robin play three clips from the February 16 police interview. They dissect what Caleb Flynn had pre-loaded before he walked through the door. According to prosecutors, his phone allegedly held more than a hundred thousand messages with a twenty-four-year-old worship singer from his own church. Prosecutors allege those messages included threats against Ashley and a text sent hours before the interview: I choose you, I'm free, actions will come tomorrow.Robin reads the behavioral indicators the detective was already seeing — what over-denial looks like and what it means when someone explains missing evidence before the detective knows it's missing. A pre-built story tells an investigator everything about the person telling it.Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to all charges including aggravated murder. He is presumed innocent.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CalebFlynn #AshleyFlynn #HiddenKillers #CalebFlynnTrial #CalebFlynnInterrogation #TippCityOhio #AmericanIdolMurder #RobinDreeke #TrueCrime #MiamiCountyOhio
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  Caleb Flynn's Mistress Told Him to Be Careful Doing WHAT?! 29.09.2026 1j

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