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The federal case against Matthew Farwell exists because the FBI reopened an investigation that local and state agencies closed. His twin brother, a former deputy chief, the DA's office, and the medical examiner all moved in the same direction on the same case. Tony and Bob Motta ask at what point a pattern of failures stops looking like incompetence, what charges could exist for the people and institutions that let it happen, and what Sandra's family was supposed to accept as justice.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #HiddenKillers #FarwellTrial #StoughtonPolice #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeCommunity #BirchmoreCase #Massachusetts #TrueCrimePodcast

Bryan Kohberger told Judge Steven Hippler under oath that he was guilty of killing four University of Idaho students. A year later, he filed a petition saying his legal team convinced him to enter a plea he did not freely choose. Which version can a court rely on?Kohberger accuses Anne Taylor and other members of his former defense team of misleading him about conditions on death row and evidence they allegedly did not share. Those claims will need proof. The judge can compare any testimony or records about the plea talks with Kohberger’s own answers in open court, where he acknowledged the murders and accepted the terms of his agreement.If his conviction were undone, the state would still have the evidence Bill Thompson described at the plea hearing. Prosecutors cited DNA on a knife sheath, a Ka-Bar purchase, nighttime cell-tower connections and surveillance of a white car. The defense would have the opportunity to challenge that evidence in a trial, and the state could again seek the death penalty if permitted.Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski for a legal look at the risks behind the petition. Does claiming ineffective counsel require Kohberger to put some of his attorney conversations under scrutiny? What proof would make that claim more than disagreement after the fact? And how would any court weigh those claims against his admissions?The October 15 hearing was canceled by an October 14 order along with the June 2027 dates. No ruling has granted a new trial. The unresolved dispute is over how Kohberger arrived at that plea.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#BryanKohberger #AnneTaylor #HiddenKillers #IdahoStudentMurders #Kohberger #EricFaddis #PostConviction #PleaDeal #IdahoMurders #TrueCrime

Bryan Kohberger's attorney asked to remove Judge Steven Hippler from the case challenging Kohberger's own guilty plea. Before that request could be argued on October 15, the court vacated the hearing and wiped out the June 2027 dates for a status conference and possible evidence hearing. The new order leaves the recusal motion unresolved.Kohberger pleaded guilty to murdering Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin and received four consecutive life sentences. At the July 2025 plea hearing, he said under oath that he was guilty. His later petition alleges ineffective assistance from the Anne Taylor defense team and claims he did not enter the plea voluntarily.Greg Rauch, his appointed lawyer for the post-conviction challenge, argues that Hippler's sentencing remarks make him unable to judge the new petition fairly. The defense highlights the judge's description of Kohberger as a faceless coward and his decision not to postpone the trial shortly before the plea. Rauch also wants the proceeding moved back to Latah County. Prosecutors want the petition dismissed and contest the need for further hearings.The amended order gives Kohberger until January 13, 2027, to update his petition. The evidentiary timetable now continues into July, with the parties instructed to revisit hearing dates only after preliminary disputes are addressed. There has been no ruling overturning the plea and no ruling that Hippler must step aside.Tony Brueski fields the questions listeners are asking, with analysis from defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis. What standard would actually remove this judge? What happens if the petition fails before anyone testifies? And why does a canceled court date matter so much when four families are waiting for finality?Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#BryanKohberger #JudgeHippler #HiddenKillersLive #IdahoStudentMurders #EricFaddis #KohbergerAppeal #GregRauch #GuiltyPlea #CourtHearing #TrueCrime

Gypsy Rose Blanchard says Ken Urker once threatened to seek sole custody after she damaged a headboard with a knife. That claim comes from a September 2025 recorded prison call, not a police complaint or custody filing. With Ken dead, the account has become part of a public argument over their daughter Aurora.Autumn Urker says her brother wanted Aurora in Texas and that his relationship with Gypsy had already ended. Gypsy points to September 2 texts discussing shared parenting and handling an agreement without opposing lawyers. The published messages are evidence of that conversation. They do not establish everything said or planned afterward, and the sheriff’s office reports no complaint from the earlier headboard incident.The listener questions also go further back. In 2007, neurologist Bernardo Flasterstein examined Gypsy after Dee Dee Blanchard presented a history of serious illness. He observed that Gypsy could support her own weight and documented the possibility of Munchausen by proxy, now often described as fabricated or induced illness imposed on another. Dee Dee stopped taking her to him. That history helps explain why Shavaun Scott’s psychological analysis is needed, without deciding questions about Gypsy’s later conduct.Tony takes the questions people are actually asking: what does the recorded account prove, what does an informal custody discussion mean, and how should the adults protect Aurora from another public fight? Investigators had not accused Gypsy in Ken’s death, and an official cause had not been released.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.#GypsyRose #KenUrker #HiddenKillersLive #AuroraUrker #AutumnUrker #ShavaunScott #GypsyRoseBlanchard #DeeDeeBlanchard #ListenerQuestions #TrueCrime

Ken Urker’s sister Autumn says he slept with a gun because he was getting death threats. She explicitly said he wasn't doing that out of fear that Gypsy Rose Blanchard would hurt him. Those details are central to the listener questions surrounding his death. Ken was found dead on October 1, 2026, his 34th birthday, at a home in Raceland, Louisiana. The sheriff’s office said it had not found evidence of foul play, while cautioning that the investigation had not ended. An official cause of death and final toxicology results had not been publicly released in the coverage reviewed. Gypsy has described Ken’s death as a suspected overdose. She has also talked about the online harassment he faced and petitioned for stronger responses to repeated reports of cyberbullying. Autumn disagrees with Gypsy on several aspects of Ken’s final weeks but also says strangers threatened him and exposed private information online. The internet's other claim is that Ken planned to seek full custody of their daughter Aurora. No verified custody filing establishing that claim was identified. Gypsy has circulated text messages that she says reflect cooperation between them. How much weight should the public give those messages while law enforcement is still gathering its own evidence? Tony Brueski brings listener questions to retired FBI special agent Jennifer Coffindaffer: what can police recover from a phone, what does an early statement from a family member actually prove, and how should a suspected overdose be discussed before toxicology is complete? The most personal question concerns Ken’s final nights and the strangers whose comments allegedly made him afraid to sleep. 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. #KenUrker #GypsyRoseBlanchard #HiddenKillersLive #AutumnUrker #Cyberbullying #JenniferCoffindaffer #GypsyRose #ListenerQA #TrueCrime #AuroraUrker

The jury found Caleb Flynn guilty on nine counts, and the court sentenced him to life without parole. His trial lawyer Patrick Mulligan then filed a notice of appeal and asked for a public defender to take over. The defense says the proof of prior calculation and design was insufficient and has identified concerns about the jury instructions and trial location.With Robin Dreeke, Tony Brueski takes listener questions about the legal road ahead and the testimony that continues to trouble viewers. Alleigha Botner told jurors about the vast volume of messages she exchanged with Flynn. One of her own texts said she wanted to kill Ashley Flynn. She also testified about deleting communications and giving federal investigators an untrue initial account of the affair.The defense pressed investigators about missed searches and about surveillance near the pastor’s home in Vandalia where Botner was house-sitting. The camera footage showed a car’s movements, leaving a narrower factual record than a camera image identifying its driver.Those investigative questions matter to the public debate, but an appellate court decides specific claims of legal error. Botner has not been charged, and the evidence discussed here does not establish that she participated in Ashley’s death. Flynn still denies killing his wife.The listeners ask whether the appeal has a realistic path and whether Ashley’s loved ones may have to face the painful evidence again.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 #AlleighaBotner #CalebFlynnAppeal #CalebFlynnTrial #MiamiCounty #TippCity #RobinDreeke #TrueCrime

Kohberger said guilty and wants it unsaid. His judge vacated every hearing. The prosecution wants his petition dead without testimony. His alibi has no witness, no phone, and contradicts the cell data. His attack on Anne Taylor opened three years of conversations. Farwell's DNA is on the weapon that killed Sandra Birchmore. He walked in wearing a mask, stayed twenty-nine minutes, and her phone stopped three minutes before he left. She sent six hundred texts that day, searched baby shower venues, and left no note. The defense says she ended her own life. Eric Faddis, defense attorney and former prosecutor, joins Tony for four segments across both cases — what the evidence says, what the defense argues, and what specifically survives.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#BryanKohberger #SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #Kohberger #FarwellTrial #HiddenKillers #EricFaddis #IdahoMurders #DNAEvidence #TrueCrime

Kohberger's post-conviction case depends on proving his attorneys failed him. He accused Anne Taylor of hiding evidence and lying about death row to scare him into a plea. Filing that claim waived attorney-client privilege — every conversation they had for three years is now exposed. Taylor filed a sealed memo before the plea warning Hippler that Kohberger couldn't comprehend adverse rulings. Hippler denied the continuance request. Kohberger pleaded guilty weeks later and is now using the same argument against Taylor that she put on the record herself. If she testifies, she carries the transcript where Kohberger said he was satisfied, initialed every provision, and admitted guilt under oath. Former defense expert Brent Turvey said Taylor and her team need to answer under oath. Eric Faddis, defense attorney and former prosecutor, joins Tony to walk through whether Kohberger's own accusation could backfire and make his case worse than the day he filed the petition.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#BryanKohberger #Kohberger #AnneTaylor #HiddenKillers #IdahoMurders #PostConviction #IneffectiveCounsel #PleaDeal #EricFaddis #TrueCrime

Bryan Kohberger's disqualification hearing was on the calendar. Judge Hippler vacated it himself the night before — and took every other court date with it. The June evidentiary hearing on the plea withdrawal, the status conference, all of it gone. The prosecution wants the petition dismissed outright, calling Kohberger's claims bare and conclusory. The defense says Hippler's sentencing comments — calling Kohberger the worst of the worst — prove he can't be fair. They also want the case moved to Latah County. Goldman, Kohberger's family attorney, says this marks the start of a longer battle. Eric Faddis joins Tony to unpack why a judge facing a bias challenge would wipe his own schedule. Can the prosecution kill this on paper, and what are the families looking at now that every hearing date has disappeared?Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#BryanKohberger #Kohberger #HiddenKillers #IdahoMurders #JudgeHippler #MoscowIdaho #PostConviction #PleaWithdrawal #EricFaddis #TrueCrime

Ken Urker’s sister Autumn says their mother told her in tears after his death, “We have to be nice to Gypsy or she won’t let her see Aurora.” She says Ken told her in their last call he wanted to bring Aurora “back home” to his mother. Those are one sister’s claims. What’s documented is that Ken is gone, Aurora is 21 months old, and every road to that child runs through Gypsy Rose Blanchard. Before prison, Gypsy built Facebook characters to get Nick Godejohn to kill Dee Dee. At his trial, the defense called her first. Dee Dee kept Rod paying and visiting only on her terms for twenty years; the reason was always the child. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of Nightbird, asks whether a woman holding the only key to a baby is protecting her daughter or proving what Dee Dee taught her about what a child is worth.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.#GypsyRose #NickGodejohn #HiddenKillers #GypsyRoseBlanchard #ShavaunScott #TrueCrime #MurderTrial #TrueCrimePodcast #KenUrker #AuroraUrker

Matthew Farwell was interviewed twice by state police investigators about Sandra Birchmore’s death. Both times in a parking lot. Neither session was recorded. Not a single note was taken.Lobby footage captured Farwell arriving at Sandra’s building at 9:28 p.m. on the night she died, in a hooded sweatshirt and a mask. There were no cameras on her floor, outside her door, or in the stairwell. Trooper Dunne acknowledged there was no way to know when Farwell actually left.Investigators already had text records between Sandra and Farwell suggesting he’d put his hands around her neck. Those texts were in the same files they’d already reviewed.Farwell is charged with killing Sandra to prevent her from reporting to federal authorities about a relationship prosecutors allege began when she was fifteen. What her family later found at that apartment should have been in an evidence room.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #HiddenKillers #FarwellTrial #TrueCrime #BirchmoreTrial #StoughtonPolice #FederalMurderTrial #TrueCrimePodcast #JusticeForSandra

Rod Blanchard called his daughter on her 18th birthday. Dee Dee Blanchard took the phone and said, “She thinks she’s 14.” When Gypsy Rose was arrested in 2015, she told police she was 19 — she was 23, and her mother held power of attorney over a grown woman’s medical decisions. Behind that lie was a medical file. Tulane ran a muscular dystrophy biopsy in 2001 and it came back negative. Dee Dee found another doctor. In 2007, a neurologist wrote “Munchausen by proxy” in the chart and never reported it. The surgeries kept going on a child who didn’t need them. The prosecutor said he could have won first-degree murder and chose not to. The internet says none of it happened. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of Nightbird, walks through the paper trail and the psychology behind a mother who needed her daughter sick.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.#GypsyRose #DeeDeeBlanchard #HiddenKillers #MunchausenByProxy #GypsyRoseBlanchard #ShavaunScott #TrueCrime #MedicalHarm #TrueCrimePodcast #Nightbird

Bryan Kohberger's lawyer put Judge Hippler's own words in a motion: "faceless coward," "worst of the worst," and the line that nothing redeeming survived his acts. Greg Rauch argues those sentencing remarks and Hippler's refusal to give the defense more time before the July 2, 2025, plea show the judge can't fairly rule on whether that plea was coerced. The hearing on removing Hippler is October 15, 2026, in Ada County, and Hippler presides. Kohberger, who told Hippler under oath that he was guilty of murdering four University of Idaho students, filed a handwritten petition a year later claiming ineffective counsel and a false confession. Prosecutors want it dismissed without a hearing; the court has reserved June 17, 2027, for one anyway. Live listener questions on whether this is strategy or narcissism, what Anne Taylor can now say on the record, and what the families sit through.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#BryanKohberger #JudgeHippler #HiddenKillers #IdahoStudentMurders #GregRauch #AnneTaylor #PostConviction #AdaCounty #TrueCrime #KohbergerHearing