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The Sandra Birchmore case is back at a question federal prosecutors raised long before Matthew Farwell's trial: what did he mean by the note he allegedly wrote to his closest friend in June 2024? The government says the former Stoughton police officer asked his friend to step in for his wife and children and said they would meet “on the other side.” News had just broken that a private pathologist believed Birchmore was killed. Prosecutors cited the note in detention filings as a reason to be concerned about flight risk. They did not claim it was a murder confession, and they acknowledged Farwell stayed put. The defense says that the evidence does not overturn the suicide explanation. The competing interpretations require careful separation from the note's actual words. In court, William Farwell testified under immunity that Matthew later told him he had wiped phone data after Birchmore's death. The prosecution presented its own reconstruction of what happened in her apartment in February 2021. The defense continues to challenge that reconstruction. Matthew Farwell has pleaded not guilty to federal counts concerning Birchmore and her unborn child. On October 28, 2026, prosecutors rested after 38 witnesses, and the defense began calling its own. Conviction could expose Farwell to life in federal prison. Because he once served as a police officer, security and protective placement would be important questions for the Bureau of Prisons if he were sentenced. Nobody can know a future housing decision from his job history alone. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis and retired FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke join Tony Brueski to test the government's reading of the note, explore the limits of behavior-based inference, and examine what former-officer status could mean inside federal custody. The central question remains whether the jury finds the murder charge proven. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #TrueCrimeToday #FarwellTrial #EricFaddis #RobinDreeke #StoughtonPolice #FederalTrial #TrueCrime #JusticeForSandra

There are two courtrooms in the story of Lori Vallow’s niece Melani Boudreaux: the custody dispute over her four children and the criminal trials that later examined Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell’s circle. Between them sits a whirlwind November 2019 wedding, a written warning attributed to her new husband, and persistent questions about what Melani believed while JJ and Tylee were missing. Melani moved next door to Lori in Rexburg and quickly married Ian Pawlowski. Ian testified that Lori and Chad held enormous influence in her life. Alex Cox, Lori’s brother, reportedly served as a witness to the wedding. In a documented account attributed to Ian, he expressed concern that Melani had heard beliefs under which Brandon Boudreaux and perhaps the missing children were considered threats that needed to be removed. His account must be understood as reported concern rather than independent proof of a plot. After Lori was arrested on February 20, 2020, Brandon continued pressing allegations in Arizona family court that Melani knew more about the attack on him and the missing children. Melani disputed those allegations through counsel and said she did not know the children’s whereabouts. She has not been charged in the Brandon shooting. She went on to testify for the state at Chad Daybell’s trial. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and former FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke join Tony Brueski to examine how people make choices under intense family loyalty, and why testimony, legal claims, and psychological interpretation should not be blended into one asserted fact. This is the story of a family crisis that outlasted an arrest and followed Melani into court. 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. #LoriVallow #MelaniPawlowski #MelaniBoudreaux #ChadDaybell #BrandonBoudreaux #ShavaunScott #RobinDreeke #HiddenKillers #JJAndTylee #TrueCrime

Police reports describing Sandra Birchmore’s death as a suicide were in the medical examiner’s hands before the examiner had investigated the death for herself. Dr. María del Mar Capó-Martínez testified that her office was not called to the apartment and that investigators reported no foul play. She initially recorded the manner of death as suicide in 2021. Five years later, the Massachusetts medical examiner’s office changed that ruling to undetermined and revised the cause of death to asphyxia. The federal prosecution says a premature conclusion and missing information compromised the original inquiry. Matthew Farwell’s defense has contested the revision and maintains Sandra died by suicide. The jury also heard testimony from William Farwell, the defendant’s twin. William, a former Stoughton police officer, acknowledged an intimate relationship with Sandra while on duty and testified under a grant of immunity. He placed that relationship in 2018, when Sandra was an adult. A separate message discussed in court described Sandra’s relationship with Matthew beginning when she was 15. William also testified that Matthew told him he had wiped phone data. Matthew Farwell is accused of killing Sandra and her unborn child and making the scene resemble suicide. He has pleaded not guilty, and the government must prove its case. William’s admissions and the examiner’s amended findings are separate pieces of the record, not substitutes for that burden. Tony Brueski examines both sets of testimony with defense attorney Bob Motta, retired FBI special agent Robin Dreeke, and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott. They look at what investigators communicated, what an examiner needs to reach a reliable conclusion, and how jurors should evaluate a twin brother’s account while considering the competing theories of Sandra’s death. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #TrueCrimeToday #WilliamFarwell #MedicalExaminer #BobMotta #RobinDreeke #ShavaunScott #StoughtonPolice #FarwellTrial

Lindsay Clancy's first murder trial ended in an eleven-to-one deadlock. Eleven jurors favored finding her not criminally responsible; one juror believed the prosecution had made its case. Now the fallout from that single vote has created its own legal controversy. Defense lawyer Kevin Reddington asked to examine holdout juror Michael Desronvil's jury questionnaire and phone records, seeking to test allegations about disclosure and cellphone use during deliberations. Desronvil's background became public, including a dismissed domestic violence charge and a restraining order. The publicity has prompted questions about whether jurors can safely vote against a majority in a high-profile case. But nothing in those reports, standing alone, establishes that Desronvil broke the rules. His account also clashes with that of the foreperson. Desronvil says he never doubted Clancy was criminally responsible. The foreperson said he admitted doubt yet would not vote to acquit. Judge William Sullivan declined to remove him, instructed the jurors on reasonable doubt, and ultimately declared a mistrial September 4. On October 21, Sullivan refused the defense's proposed post-trial inquiry, finding that information uncovered after the mistrial could not overturn the rationale for declaring one. Clancy's separate double-jeopardy motion seeks dismissal of the case and is scheduled for argument November 2. Prosecutors have not committed publicly to another trial. Clancy has pleaded not guilty to murder charges involving her three children. The initial trial tested competing accounts of her mental state, including the defense claim of postpartum psychosis. The next chapter asks whether the mistrial should stand and what the law permits when attorneys question the lone juror who blocked a unanimous outcome. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #LindsayClancy #KevinReddington #TrueCrimeToday #MichaelDesronvil #Mistrial #DoubleJeopardy #HoldoutJuror #PlymouthCounty #JurorRights #TrueCrimeNews

A federal court filing in the Anna Kepner cruise ship murder case says Timothy Hudson’s attorneys cannot make a final plea decision until one pending issue is addressed. The filing does not describe the issue. That is the specific gap in the public record, and it is the reason the defense asked for more time. Kepner was 18 when she died aboard the Carnival Horizon in November 2025. Her body was discovered under a bed in the cabin she shared with her stepbrother and another teenager. Hudson, then 16, is now being prosecuted as an adult for first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse. He has pleaded not guilty, and the government carries the burden of proving its case. Judge Beth Bloom granted the October continuance without an objection from prosecutors. Hudson’s guilty-plea deadline is January 15, 2027, and his trial is scheduled for January 25. The case previously had September and November trial settings. The defense has also told the court that family circumstances have made parts of its preparation especially difficult. The potential sentencing consequences explain why a plea decision cannot be treated like a routine scheduling matter. Hudson faces a possible life sentence if convicted, while juvenile sentencing protections may require a separate individualized review. Some commentary has floated a 24-to-30-year plea range. That number is not a confirmed deal in the public material reviewed. Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke join Tony Brueski to compare what the judge actually ordered with what commentators have inferred from the delay. A plea would spare the parties a trial, but it would also require major decisions about guilt and punishment. With the unresolved issue unnamed, the most important distinction is between what defense counsel disclosed and everything outsiders are guessing. 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. #AnnaKepner #TimothyHudson #TrueCrimeToday #CarnivalHorizon #FederalTrial #PleaDeal #JuvenileJustice #BobMotta #RobinDreeke #TrueCrime

In the federal murder trial of Matthew Farwell, prosecutors called a witness with a direct connection to both the accused and Sandra Birchmore: Matthew’s twin brother William. Under a federal immunity agreement, William acknowledged that he had sexual contact with Sandra while he was on duty as a Stoughton police officer. The admission came October 26, 2026. William told jurors the relationship began in 2018, when Sandra was an adult. Prosecutors have made a separate allegation against Matthew: that he started exploiting Sandra when she was a minor involved in the Stoughton Police Explorers program. Matthew denies the murder charge, and his defense says Sandra took her own life in 2021. The case reaches far beyond the courtroom testimony of one brother. Sandra joined the police youth program when she was about thirteen. A subsequent department investigation identified inappropriate relationships involving Matthew, William, and former deputy chief Robert Devine. Civil litigation and public reporting have raised questions about access to young participants and the accountability of officers who held positions of trust. The existence of those findings does not determine guilt in Matthew’s federal trial. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta and retired FBI agent Robin Dreeke examine how the prosecution might use William’s on-duty admission, why the defense may challenge his credibility or relevance, and how immunity affects testimony. We also examine the uncomfortable institutional question behind the case: why did oversight fail to protect someone who came into contact with these officers through a mentorship program? A murder verdict, whatever the outcome, will not on its own answer every question about the department’s responsibility. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #TrueCrimeToday #WilliamFarwell #StoughtonPolice #FarwellTrial #PoliceOversight #BobMotta #RobinDreeke #TrueCrimeNews

Then there is a custody-case document attributed to Melani’s later husband, Ian Pawlowski. It describes Melani recounting a belief that Brandon was no longer himself and might need to die as part of a religious plan. The filing also says she did not expect anyone to act. Melani’s representatives disputed accusations in the custody proceedings. Ian later testified about the influence Lori and Chad Daybell had over Melani, describing what he came to see as manipulation. In October 2019, someone fired at Brandon Boudreaux outside his home in Gilbert, Arizona. Investigators identified Lori Vallow Daybell’s brother, Alex Cox, as the suspected gunman. A jury convicted Lori in June 2025 of conspiring to kill Brandon, and she received a life sentence in Arizona. But this combined episode turns to someone who was much closer to Brandon: his then-wife, Lori’s niece Melani Pawlowski. Melani has not been charged in the shooting and has denied any involvement. At Lori’s trial, prosecutors pointed to Melani’s connections and questions about the timing of communications. An FBI agent testified, according to the episode’s reporting, that Lori’s phone and Melani’s were connected in a 35-minute call around the time of the shooting. The content of that call has not been publicly established. We also examine the address Melani reportedly sought before the attack, the morning park handoff, and phone activity involving Cox. Each detail calls for context; none on its own proves Melani participated in a conspiracy. Retired FBI agent Robin Dreeke and I compare the phone evidence, the custody filing, and the statements given to investigators. The distinction matters: Lori’s conviction is established; Melani’s alleged knowledge and involvement remain disputed. Gilbert police have said their investigation is active, and Melani has not been charged in the attempted killing. What can the available record actually show about what she knew before Brandon was shot at? 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. #LoriVallow #MelaniPawlowski #TrueCrimeToday #BrandonBoudreaux #LoriVallowDaybell #ChadDaybell #IanPawlowski #AlexCox #TrueCrimeNews #Arizona

Sandra Birchmore’s fractured hyoid bone is one of the most heavily contested details in Matthew Farwell’s federal murder trial. Prosecutors allege the former Stoughton police officer strangled Birchmore, who was pregnant, and staged the scene at her Canton apartment in February 2021. The defense says she died by suicide. Farwell has pleaded not guilty. Outside forensic experts have argued the fracture and the way Birchmore’s body was positioned do not fit the hanging scenario. The defense challenges their conclusions and intends to offer an alternative interpretation of the physical evidence. Investigators also documented a strap that prosecutors call the murder weapon; a forensic scientist testified that Farwell’s DNA was found on it. What that finding establishes is part of the jury’s job. Her messages provide another timeline. Days before her death, Birchmore told a friend that Farwell wanted a key and had been looking in her closet and bathroom. She reportedly described his behavior as odd. The prosecution sees those movements as significant. Under questioning, the friend acknowledged it was possible he was looking for another man. The October 23 testimony focused on Birchmore’s mental health. Her therapist, Diala Alkhalil, said she had never observed suicidal thinking in their sessions and remembered Birchmore anticipating motherhood. The defense pointed to older expressions of distress and raised Zoloft’s warnings. The therapist also recounted Birchmore’s account of seeing her late mother standing at the foot of the bed. DNA testing identified Jason Pickard as the unborn baby’s biological father, not Farwell, as Birchmore had believed. This combined episode follows the physical findings and the final-days testimony without treating any single fact as a verdict. Each detail is important because the two sides are asking jurors to draw radically different conclusions from the same record. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #TrueCrimeToday #HyoidBone #FarwellTrial #FederalCourt #StoughtonPolice #ForensicEvidence #TrueCrimeNews #Massachusetts

Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s history with Dee Dee Blanchard contains a warning that looks enormous in hindsight. Neurologist Bernardo Flasterstein examined Gypsy, questioned the serious diagnoses Dee Dee reported, and wrote that he believed Dee Dee had Munchausen by proxy. He later said he did not think he had enough information to report the case to child protection. Dee Dee moved Gypsy’s care away from that doctor. The medical story continued through a wheelchair, a feeding tube, salivary-gland surgery, and other treatment while Dee Dee claimed older records had been destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. The family also received major charitable support, including a Habitat for Humanity home and a Make-A-Wish trip. The fraud was not exposed through the medical system before Dee Dee’s 2015 death. The second half turns to Ken Urker, the father of Gypsy’s daughter. He was found dead at his Raceland, Louisiana home on October 1, 2026. Deputies reported finding syringes, a spoon, a brown powdery substance, two shot glasses, and a holstered handgun. Authorities said the investigation remained open, and the coroner said toxicology was still pending. Gypsy initially said she believed Ken overdosed but did not know whether it was intentional. Weeks later, she wrote in her Kenan’s Law petition that she was “100 percent” certain his death was not suicide. We trace the gap between those statements and the official findings available at the time. From a doctor’s written suspicion years ago to a new claim made before toxicology was public, this combined episode is about what the record says, what people say, and the space between them. 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. #GypsyRose #DeeDeeBlanchard #TrueCrimeToday #KenUrker #GypsyRoseBlanchard #MedicalFraud #MunchausenByProxy #KenansLaw #TrueCrimeNews #Louisiana

Prosecutors have rested in the Matthew Farwell trial, and police reports say he hit a pole head-on as the FBI investigated. On November 2, 2026, the Idaho Supreme Court hears the Lori Vallow appeal. The crash, he told officers, happened because a deer ran beneath the truck's hood. Farwell has entered a not-guilty plea, and his lawyers say Sandra Birchmore took her own life after he ended things. On October 26, 2026, the medical examiner who ruled Sandra's death a suicide testified she was never once asked if it was suspicious. If convicted, the former patrolmen's union president faces life without parole in federal prison. Lori seeks a new trial, arguing the judge took away her right to the attorney she hired. Defense lawyer and onetime prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Robin Dreeke, a retired agent who ran the FBI counterintelligence behavioral program, to weigh what comes next. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #SandraBirchmore #LoriVallow #TrueCrimeToday #MatthewFarwell #ChadDaybell #FarwellTrial #IdahoSupremeCourt #EricFaddis #RobinDreeke #TrueCrime

Ronald "Butch" DeFeo Jr. shot his parents and four siblings in their beds at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York, on November 13, 1974. His mother had warned the cleaning woman that something tragic was coming. His father had ignored a loaded shotgun misfire years earlier. At trial, DeFeo told the jury he killed them all in self-defense and that he was God with a gun in his hand. He spent forty-five years in prison changing the story — blaming his dead sister, inventing a wife, telling a new version with every visitor. Thirteen months after the murders, George and Kathy Lutz moved three children into the house and left after twenty-eight days. The book said A True Story on the cover and sold millions. The movie earned eighty million dollars. Their own lawyer said they had created the story over wine. George trademarked the name and sued one of the children he had moved in. Two of them spoke. Missy, who was five, never has. 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. #Amityville #RonaldDeFeo #HiddenKillers #DeFeoMurders #AmityvilleHorror #GeorgeLutz #112OceanAvenue #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeDocumentary #ColdCase

The Idaho Supreme Court takes up the Lori Vallow appeal on November 2, 2026, with no deadline for a ruling. The main fight is over a judge removing Mark Means as her lawyer. Means was being paid by Chad Daybell, who was charged alongside Lori in the murders, so the trial judge found Means couldn't represent both. Lori argues the removal violated her right to the attorney she chose, so she wants the case retried. She also asks the court to throw out every Idaho charge over a speedy trial she says she demanded and never got. The state says the wait from her May 2021 charges to an April 2023 trial came from her mental hospital stay, the Boise move she requested, and the case's size. Former FBI counterintelligence behavioral chief Robin Dreeke and Eric Faddis, a prosecutor turned defense attorney, join me on where this goes next. 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. #LoriVallow #ChadDaybell #TrueCrimeToday #LoriVallowDaybell #IdahoSupremeCourt #LoriVallowAppeal #JJVallow #TyleeRyan #EricFaddis #RobinDreeke

Prosecutors have rested their side of the Matthew Farwell trial. They argued the ex-Stoughton officer killed Sandra Birchmore during her pregnancy and staged her death as a suicide. His plea is not guilty. If convicted, he faces life, and federal prison has no parole. Instead of solitary, the feds put ex-Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin in a unit for ex-cops, ex-gang members and other inmates deemed high-risk. Prosecutors allege a onetime gang leader in that unit stabbed him 22 times. In prison, the saying goes, the two worst things you can be are a cop and a man in a case like Farwell's. Prosecutors say it started when Sandra was 15 and Farwell, then 27, was teaching the police youth program she was in. Former prosecutor turned defense attorney Eric Faddis and ex-FBI behavioral program chief Robin Dreeke weigh what both would mean inside. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #TrueCrimeToday #FarwellTrial #FederalPrison #PrisonLife #StoughtonPolice #EricFaddis #RobinDreeke #TrueCrime

On the defense’s first full day of witnesses, Farwell’s lawyers showed the jury a page Sandra Birchmore wrote in 2017. She’d listed reasons to end her life and reasons not to. Her ex-boyfriend William Kilroy identified something at the bottom of that page as his own handwriting. Kilroy told the jury Sandra was depressed after losing her mother and grandmother, talked about joining her grandmother, and later threatened to kill herself and put him in the note. The chief ME of Massachusetts also testified for the defense. Her office called Sandra’s death a suicide in 2021, then changed the ruling to undetermined in 2026. Prosecutors got Kilroy to agree Sandra was a fighter, resilient, and someone who always pulled through. They pointed out no note was ever found. A broken necklace from Sandra’s grandmother was around her neck in a police photo and never collected by investigators. Farwell faces mandatory life if convicted. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #HiddenKillers #FarwellTrial #TrueCrime #WilliamKilroy #Defense #MedicalExaminer #FederalTrial #Justice

The prosecution has rested in Matthew Farwell's trial, and its witnesses included the Sandra Birchmore medical examiner. Farwell, once a Stoughton detective, pleaded not guilty after the FBI arrested him in August 2024. The DA cited the medical examiner's May 2021 suicide ruling when he didn't bring charges. Under oath on October 26, 2026, she said outside agencies supply her information and that she never got asked if Sandra's death was suspicious. In the last six months of 2020, right before Sandra died, about 20 medical examiners in Massachusetts handled a caseload of more than 3,600. Their own report says most bodies get examined within a day of arriving. Defense lawyer and onetime prosecutor Eric Faddis joins me with Robin Dreeke, retired head of the FBI's behavioral program. We get into what a family can do when one ruling decides whether anyone keeps looking. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #TrueCrimeToday #FarwellTrial #MedicalExaminer #DeathInvestigation #EricFaddis #RobinDreeke #Massachusetts #TrueCrime

The prosecution has rested in the Matthew Farwell trial. The state says the former Stoughton detective strangled a pregnant Sandra Birchmore and disguised her death as a suicide, and Farwell's plea is not guilty. Prosecutors pointed to a goodbye note when pushing to keep him behind bars ahead of trial. The state says he wrote it to his best friend on June 24, 2024, wishing things had gone differently and asking the friend to watch over his wife. On the day Farwell handed troopers his personal phone, he ran searches on his police phone that jurors later saw. One asked whether you can take back consent in Massachusetts. Joining me are Eric Faddis, a former prosecutor who moved into defense work, and the FBI's retired behavioral chief Robin Dreeke. If the medical evidence won't settle it, can Farwell's own conduct carry a juror to guilty? Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #TrueCrimeToday #FarwellTrial #ConsciousnessOfGuilt #StoughtonPolice #EricFaddis #RobinDreeke #TrueCrime #FederalTrial

In the full episode, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI behavior chief Robin Dreeke dig into Melani Pawlowski, the niece who was calling Lori Vallow "Mom" as a grown woman with four kids. We cover the firesides Brandon Boudreaux says he wasn't welcome at, the recorded Rexburg calls where Lori called Melani and her new husband "powerful warriors on our team," and the custody fight after Lori's arrest. Shavaun then turns to William Farwell, the twin of former Stoughton detective Matthew Farwell. Sandra Birchmore texted William that she was 15 the first time Matthew slept with her, and William, a cop seeing her himself, did nothing. He later testified against his twin with immunity. Melani has never been charged in the shooting at Brandon and denies any part in it. Matthew Farwell has pleaded not guilty. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/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. #LoriVallow #SandraBirchmore #TrueCrimeToday #MelaniPawlowski #WilliamFarwell #ShavaunScott #RobinDreeke #TrueCrime #ChadDaybell #MatthewFarwell

Three children went into the house at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville in December 1975, thirteen months after the DeFeo murders. They were five, seven, and ten. Twenty-eight days later the family left. Then their stepfather, George Lutz, and their mother put them into a book, a movie, and fifty years of other people's story. The book's cover said A True Story. Their own lawyer told a reporter they had made it up over wine. A federal judge said the book was largely fiction. Investigators found no snowfall for the hoof prints and no police records for the calls. The next owners found original hardware on a door supposedly torn from its hinges. George trademarked the words Amityville Horror and in 2003 sued his own stepson over the name. Christopher Quaratino said George had exaggerated the incidents to profit. His brother Daniel said George hit them. Their sister Missy was five when they moved in. She has never spoken publicly. 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. #Amityville #GeorgeLutz #HiddenKillers #AmityvilleHorror #DeFeoMurders #KathyLutz #112OceanAvenue #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeDocumentary #Haunting

In the Matthew Farwell trial, his twin brother William took the stand with immunity and walked through his own years with Sandra Birchmore. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins me on what his choices say about him. William, a Stoughton cop, started an affair with Sandra in 2018, when she was in her early 20s. When she told him she was 15 the first time Matthew slept with her, he says he didn't believe her. In January 2021, with Sandra pregnant, he texted that it was "a horrible idea" and he "can't and won't be in the middle of it." Months after she died, he joked about Matthew wiping his phones. He resigned from Stoughton police during the internal investigation. Prosecutors say Matthew strangled Sandra and staged a suicide, and he has pleaded not guilty. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #SandraBirchmore #WilliamFarwell #TrueCrimeToday #MatthewFarwell #ShavaunScott #FarwellTrial #TrueCrime #StoughtonPolice #JusticeForSandra #TrueCrimeCommunity

Start with a wheelchair in Chackbay, Louisiana. End with a body on a birthday. Between them: twenty-three years of fabricated illness, a negative muscle biopsy that changed nothing, a doctor's chart note that was never reported, a murder planned four different ways, a sentence of ten years for the planner and life without parole for the man who carried it out, a decade in prison that drew two men through an HBO documentary, a release that launched a media career, and a death on a thirty-fourth birthday with drug paraphernalia at the scene. This three-part series tells the complete Gypsy Rose Blanchard story across three parts. Part one covers the fraud. Part two covers the murder and prison. Part three covers the release and everything that followed. Every person who entered Gypsy Rose's story left it changed. This is all of it. 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. #GypsyRose #GypsyRoseDocuseries #HiddenKillers #DeeDeeBlanchard #KenUrker #NicholasGodejohn #TrueCrime #Documentary #GypsyRoseBlanchard #Docuseries