Anna Kepner's Accused Stepbrother Has to Make This Call

On the evening of November 13, 1974, Ronald "Butch" DeFeo Jr. ran into his regular bar on Merrick Road in Amityville and told the men at the counter that his parents had been shot. By the next afternoon he had given detectives the rifle, the pillowcase, and a confession. He also asked them what he would have to do to collect on his father's life insurance. His lawyer put an insanity defense in front of a jury. DeFeo took the stand and said he killed them all in self-defense, that when he held a gun there was no doubt who he was. The prosecutor asked if it felt good. He said yes. Six life sentences, served back to back. From prison he blamed Dawn, his mother, unnamed friends. He fabricated a marriage. A judge called his sworn testimony false and fabricated. He died in 2021 at sixty-nine, still serving the sentences. The parole board turned him down every time. 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 #DeFeoTrial #112OceanAvenue #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeDocumentary #ColdCase

In March 2026, Gypsy Rose Blanchard appeared in a TikTok joking about murder. In August, leaked prison recordings surfaced — calls from 2020 and 2021 where she told a friend she hoped Ken Urker would overdose. Ken was publicly humiliated. He started sleeping with a gun. By September, the relationship had ended. On October 1, 2026 — his thirty-fourth birthday — Ken Urker was found dead with drug paraphernalia at the scene. A cause of death is pending. Thirteen days later, Gypsy was on Instagram. Before the recordings, the media tour had already established the brand: Good Morning America, CNN, The View, a Lifetime deal, a memoir, the Kardashians, and a podcast appearance where she said she doesn't associate herself as a murderer. Part three of the series covers the release, the brand, and the man who died in the wake 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 #KenUrker #HiddenKillers #GypsyRoseDocuseries #TrueCrime #Documentary #GypsyRoseBlanchard #AuroraUrker #Docuseries #TonyBrueski

Bryan Kohberger initialed nine pages of plea paperwork when he pleaded guilty to the University of Idaho murders in July 2025. One question on the plea form asked whether he'd been coerced, and he checked "no." A year later, his petition accused his own defense team of coercing him and claimed he's innocent. Judge Steven Hippler cleared the whole schedule on October 14, 2026, and no hearing is on the calendar. Before the plea, lead attorney Anne Taylor warned Hippler in a sealed memo that her client couldn't rationally assess the case. She asked for more time, and Hippler denied it. The court has ordered that memo shared with prosecutors. Prosecutors want the petition dismissed outright with no hearing. They call it bare and unsupported, and they say Idaho law doesn't recognize his claim of innocence. I'm joined by Robin Dreeke, former chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, and trial attorney Bob Motta on whether prosecutors can kill this petition on paper. 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. #BryanKohberger #IdahoMurders #HiddenKillers #Idaho4 #JudgeHippler #KohbergerPetition #PleaDeal #BobMotta #RobinDreeke #TrueCrime

Matthew Farwell's twin brother William promised Sandra Birchmore in October 2020 that he wouldn't say a word about her and Matthew, and on October 27th he told a federal jury what else he kept to himself. Testifying with immunity, William said he and Matthew talked about Matthew's other affairs but never about Sandra while she was alive. As he tells it, the State Police sergeant on her case said he needed it closed out and would try to leave William out of his report. William said Matthew later told him State Police had copied his phones, and that he'd wiped them first. On cross, Matthew's lawyers got William to say he doesn't recall being inside Sandra's apartment on January 10th, 2021, part of their push to leave jurors unsure whose DNA is on the strap. I go through all of it, plus what the government's doctor found on Sandra's neck. 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 #HiddenKillers #WilliamFarwell #FarwellTrial #SandraBirchmoreTrial #JusticeForSandraBirchmore #TrueCrime #StoughtonPolice #TonyBrueski

The Norfolk District Attorney's office declined to charge anyone in the Sandra Birchmore case after medical examiner Dr. María del Mar Capó-Martínez ruled the death a suicide. At Matthew Farwell's federal trial, she testified the police paperwork arriving with Sandra's body had already presented her death as a suicide, no foul play involved. She testified her office never got a call to the apartment. Prosecutors say she never learned about Farwell's texts with Sandra, or about video of him going in and out of Sandra's building. Farwell, once a Stoughton police detective, pleaded not guilty in the deaths of Sandra Birchmore and her unborn child. In April 2026 the doctor amended her ruling to undetermined. According to prosecutors, the original ruling came too early and relied on misinformation, but Farwell's lawyers claim federal prosecutors leaned on her to change it. Defense Diaries host Bob Motta and former FBI agent Robin Dreeke help me trace how early the word "suicide" got locked in. 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 #HiddenKillers #MedicalExaminer #FarwellTrial #AutopsyRuling #NorfolkDA #BobMotta #RobinDreeke #JusticeForSandra