
Matthew Farwell’s DNA Comparison Was Missing From WHAT?!
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In the Sandra Birchmore case, the question is what investigators did with the evidence they collected and what they never compared. A state lab identified male DNA on a strap recovered from her apartment in 2021. A federal court filing says investigators did not get Matthew Farwell’s reference DNA then. Testimony also described two unrecorded Farwell interviews, including one in a school parking lot. In federal court, FBI Special Agent Heidi Kelsch read messages between Farwell and Sandra that prosecutors say document their contact beginning when she was a teenager. Prosecutors accuse Farwell of killing Sandra to prevent exposure of the relationship and making her death look self-inflicted. Farwell has pleaded not guilty; the defense argues she took her own life. Tony Brueski follows the gap between the first inquiry and the evidence before the federal jury. The federal prosecution theory focuses on Farwell’s alleged motive to keep Sandra from disclosing their history. His attorneys have challenged the allegation that he caused her death and point to her mental health history. The unrecorded police interviews and messages read in open court give jurors different kinds of evidence, each carrying different limits. 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 #StoughtonPolice #Investigation #DNAEvidence #FBI #TrueCrimePodcast #Massachusetts
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s old prison conversations about Ken Urker are receiving new scrutiny after Ken was found dead in Louisiana, and they arrive as another group is trying to rewrite the history of Dee Dee Blanchard. Recordings reported as prison calls from 2020 and 2021 capture Gypsy telling Ryan Anderson that she had told Ken she hoped he would overdose. Ken died on October 1, 2026, his thirty-fourth birthday. A Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office incident report says family and friends entered the Raceland home through a bedroom window before deputies arrived. Investigators reported syringes, a spoon beside a brown powdery substance, another syringe and a holstered handgun. Authorities said they found no signs of foul play. An official cause of death had not been announced when the report was released. At the same time, a growing online argument says Dee Dee was a loving mother whose daughter was genuinely ill. Gypsy does have a chromosome 1q21.1 deletion, and that condition can produce developmental and other medical issues with highly variable severity. But that diagnosis is only one part of the record. Dee Dee claimed additional severe conditions and disabilities, while pediatric neurologist Dr. Bernardo Flasterstein documented a strong possibility of Munchausen by proxy after evaluating Gypsy. Dee Dee’s father, Claude Pitre, later described just how estranged Dee Dee had become from her own family. In the HBO documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest, he said nobody wanted her cremated remains and that he told the family to flush the ashes down the toilet. Tony Brueski and Bob Motta examine the collision between documented medical history, family testimony, Gypsy’s reported prison words and the unanswered questions surrounding Ken’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. #GypsyRoseBlanchard #KenUrker #TrueCrimeToday #DeeDeeBlanchard #GypsyRose #TrueCrime #LafourcheParish #MunchausenByProxy #MedicalRecords #TrueCrimePodcast
Ambulance driver Leo Hengstler took the stand and testified to something no book, no movie, and no dramatization has ever included. He heard Debbie tell her father at the scene while Alan Bono lay dying: "You know how he gets when he's been drinking." Not possession. Drinking. Debbie had watched five blackout episodes after Arne challenged the demon — she said each one looked exactly like David's. But the Washington Post described a different man — quick to anger, possessive, carrying a 5-inch folding knife since childhood. Carl Jr. raised another detail the supernatural accounts never addressed: rumors that Debbie had been involved with Bono. She acknowledged a past relationship. February 16, 1981. Bono drank for hours, grabbed a 9-year-old girl. Arne told him to release her. Bono was dead on his own lawn. 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. #DevilMadeHimDoIt #ArneJohnson #AlanBono #DebbieGlatzel #BrookfieldCT #TheConjuring #DemonicPossession #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #DevilOnTrial
Alex Murdaugh is heading to an April 2027 retrial, and Matthew Farwell is on trial in Boston for Sandra Birchmore's death. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins me to break down both. Murdaugh's defense can now test unidentified DNA from Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails and phone, and it wants answers about a police officer friend who, the defense says, prosecutors suggested reached the scene early. Prosecutors won't say whether a grand jury exists. In the Birchmore case, prosecutors say Farwell learned of a friend's January 20, 2021 call to Stoughton police before Sandra died. His DNA, they say, was on the strap. The officers who first investigated testified about what they skipped. And the chief who exposed them is suing over a report she says she was told to destroy, which Thomas Calter denies. Eric explains what each jury may hear. 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 #AlexMurdaugh #TrueCrimeToday #MatthewFarwell #MaggieMurdaugh #EricFaddis #FarwellTrial #MurdaughRetrial #CoverUp #TrueCrimeCommunity
One of Timmy Gibson's pastor friends decided to be honest on his annual licensing form and admitted to marijuana use. He was stripped of his credentials and removed from ministry. Gibson says every other pastor he knew lied on the same form. On Homicide Happy Hour, Gibson described the Assemblies of God licensing process as a pure honor system with no verification. The system protects itself by punishing honesty. Gibson says that architecture is how JP Miller allegedly operated without accountability for years. Miller structured his church so nobody could override him. Miller faces one count of cyberstalking and one count of making false statements to federal investigators. He has pleaded not guilty. He is not charged in the death of his wife Mica. Tony raised the subject of Suzie Skinner, Miller's current wife, whose first husband died under circumstances both hosts described as mysterious. 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. #JPMiller #MicaMiller #TimmyGibson #HomicideHappyHour #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #AssembliesOfGod #SuzieSkinner #SolidRockChurch #CoerciveControl
David Glatzel told his family he saw Arne Johnson killing someone. He was 11 years old. That vision came months before February 16, 1981 — before Johnson stabbed Alan Bono on a kennel lawn in Brookfield, Connecticut, the town's first homicide in 193 years. David's brother Carl was in the same room the day it allegedly started. Carl saw nothing. Their parents divided over what was real. Their father slapped David during an episode — he stopped immediately. The Warrens arrived and the family started recording everything on cassette. Those tapes survived. On them, a child's voice drops into something guttural, screaming obscenities while his mother holds him down. The Catholic Church sent priests but drew the line at a formal exorcism. Then Arne Johnson challenged the demon to take him instead. David got better. Arne started having blackouts. 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. #DevilMadeHimDoIt #ArneJohnson #DavidGlatzel #EdAndLorraineWarren #TheConjuring #BrookfieldCT #DemonicPossession #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #DevilOnTrial