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Kevin Reddington built Lindsay Clancy's entire defense on the premise that she killed Cora, Dawson, and Callan while in the grip of postpartum psychosis. He offered to stipulate it in writing. The jury deadlocked 11-1 for acquittal. A mistrial was declared. Then Reddington stood before Judge Sullivan and argued there is no evidence she did it. He called the police investigation nonexistent. He challenged the physical evidence. Prosecutors told the court they were hearing this argument for the first time. The judge took the motion under advisement and scheduled further hearings for November 2. This segment breaks down what Rule 25 actually is, whether it has any realistic chance, and what this pivot means for the retrial. Clancy has pleaded not guilty.
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For eighteen months, Alleigha Botner received texts from Caleb Flynn describing how much he hated his wife and fantasizing about her death. Over 107,000 messages. She read them, stayed in the affair, and initially lied to the FBI after Ashley was shot twice in the back of the head. A jury convicted Flynn of aggravated murder. Could civil court offer the one thing criminal court couldn't — a reckoning with the woman who knew? What could a wrongful death lawsuit expose that prosecutors left untouched? What deleted texts, shared accounts, or private conversations are still buried? Flynn has been convicted. All individuals discussed are presumed innocent of any uncharged conduct until proven guilty.
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Anne Taylor is the person the Bryan Kohberger Idaho murder case turns on. In a sealed filing submitted in May 2025, Kohberger’s defense attorney told Judge Hippler that her client couldn’t rationally understand the proceedings against him. She wrote that he struggled to comprehend adverse rulings and couldn’t make consequential decisions about his own defense.
Hippler denied Taylor’s motion for more time on June 26. Six days later, Kohberger stood in a Boise courtroom and pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree murder for the killings of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. Taylor stood beside him and told the court she was satisfied she’d had sufficient time. Kohberger answered every question.
Kohberger’s post-conviction petition now seeks to vacate that plea, alleging his attorneys withheld evidence and pressured him into a deal he didn’t understand. The defense team’s own forensic expert, Ruth Ballard, examined the hair evidence Kohberger says was concealed and concluded it physically matched victim Ethan Chapin. That analysis was completed a full month before the plea agreement was signed.
Taylor’s team never concluded Kohberger was incompetent and denied it explicitly. Brent Turvey, the forensic criminologist on the defense team, has said publicly that Taylor and her co-counsel will face “very difficult questions.”
Arguments on whether Hippler should be disqualified are set for October 15. An amended petition is due in November. If the evidentiary hearing goes forward in June 2027, everything comes down to what Anne Taylor says under oath.
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It started with a lie in a church and ended with a murder charge in a bedroom. In between: eighteen months, 107,000 text messages, and a relationship that psychotherapist Shavaun Scott says followed a trajectory she’s seen before — with an ending she says the psychology was always building toward.
Scott joins Tony Brueski for a three-part interview covering the full arc of the relationship between Caleb Flynn and Alleigha Botner in the case of Ashley Flynn’s death. Part one starts at CLC church in Miami County, Ohio, where Flynn — a 36-year-old worship team volunteer and former American Idol contestant — met Botner, a 21-year-old intern. Scott dissects the power imbalance: the age gap, the spiritual authority, the “roommate” narrative, and the theatrical gestures — AI love songs, matching Harry Potter tattoos — that built a sealed world around a younger woman.
Part two maps the eighteen-month holding pattern. Flynn wanted wife, children, reputation, and mistress — all of it, permanently. Botner set deadlines. Flynn broke them. She left in January. He came back on Valentine’s Day. Scott explains the intermittent reinforcement and the sunk-cost fallacy that made the pattern self-sustaining.
Part three confronts the 107,000 texts and the escalation from marriage complaints to casual references to Ashley’s death. Botner testified she texted “I want to kill her.” Scott reads the complicity debate through both psychologies and then turns the entire question: if Flynn had recommitted to Ashley, how safe was the woman carrying every text he’d ever sent?
One arc. One question running underneath all three parts: was this always heading toward the ending it reached, or was there a moment it could’ve been stopped?
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Sandra Birchmore was 12 years old when she applied to the Stoughton Police Explorers in March 2010. Matthew Farwell, the former Stoughton officer charged with killing her, was an instructor there. Part 1 of the Sandra Birchmore story is what the department's own records, the FBI, and the state's police-standards commission say happened inside that program, and how it ended on the night of February 1, 2021.
The Explorers post was run by Robert Devine, who rose to deputy chief, was demoted after an internal probe found he'd lied, and stayed on the force. The department's 2022 report found Devine, Matthew Farwell, and his twin William all had inappropriate relationships with Sandra. It dated Matthew's to the spring of 2013, when she was 15. A fourth town employee, the animal control officer, admitted an encounter of his own. The state has charged none of them.
Prosecutors cite texts in which Farwell told Sandra to clear out their messages in 2019 and confirmed he'd be on the clock when he came by in November 2020. In December she told him she was pregnant. Friends told the FBI about a headlock, a shove over a sonogram, and a wish that she would die. She scheduled her OB appointment for February 10 and planned a Valentine's Day announcement.
On January 20, 2021, a friend called the Stoughton Police Department to report Farwell; the FBI says the call reached him within the department. On February 1, the night before his wife gave birth, building video shows him walking into Sandra's building hooded and masked and walking out less than half an hour later. Prosecutors allege strangulation and a staged hanging. Farwell has pleaded not guilty and says she died by suicide. His federal trial opens October 5, 2026.
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