Podcast Episodes

Is What Happened to Aaron Spencer Part of a Decade-Long Pattern in Lonoke County?

The dashcam SD card in Aaron Spencer’s case didn’t vanish in a vacuum. It disappeared inside a department with a documented history of evidence prob…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

What Happens When Mackenzie Shirilla Becomes an Influencer From Prison?

Mackenzie Shirilla is behind bars for driving a hundred miles per hour into a brick wall and killing Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan. She was seve…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

How Did BTK Use A Church Council Seat To Hide In Plain Sight?

Dennis Rader was the council president of Christ Lutheran Church in Park City, Kansas, on the morning of February 25, 2005. The Wichita Police Depar…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

What Happens When Aaron Spencer Walks Into the Department That Tried to Put Him Away?

The front door of the Lonoke County Sheriff’s Office is about to open for Aaron Spencer — not as a defendant, but as the boss.

Spencer beat incumbent…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

What Were the 11 Failures That Forced a Judge to Dismiss Aaron Spencer’s Murder Case?

Eleven failures. One detective. One missing SD card. One 19-page order from a judge who chose the most extreme remedy available — full dismissal.

Jud…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Why Is Everyone Connected to the Aaron Spencer Case Suddenly Leaving?

The detective was fired. The prosecutor is retiring. The county clerk resigned months ago citing persecution. And at the center of it all is a ninet…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

What Does Every Piece of Evidence Say About What Happened to Three-Year-Old Elijah Vue?

The evidence in the Elijah Vue case tells one story. The two people charged in his death allegedly tried to tell another. Three-year-old Elijah was …

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Christine Reveals How Samuel Bateman Confessed On Her Camera, And Cops Ignored It

Samuel Bateman wasn't hiding. He was operating in the open, on a street where the local police knew his name, in a town where the sheriff drove past…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Why Does Elijah Vue’s Mother Face Sixty Years While the Man She Gave Him to Faces Life?

Jesse Vang faces harm to a child through repeated acts causing death — a charge that carries life in prison, filed with repeater enhancers because o…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Why Did Brendan Banfield’s Own Lawyer Walk Away After Sentencing?

Christine Banfield’s sister looked Brendan Banfield in the eye at his sentencing and told him she never truly knew him. Nobody did. Joseph Ryan’s mo…

1 month, 2 weeks ago