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Victoria Heuermann asked her father a question that took more courage than most people will ever need in their entire lives. She looked at the man who raised her — handcuffed, shackled, sitting in a jailhouse room — and asked him: when you were killing those women, did you ever think about me? Rex Heuermann's answer was one word. No. He said the two worlds never crossed. He said he never thought about his family while he was carrying out the murders. Not once. Not ever. And Victoria had to sit with that answer, process it, and somehow figure out how to keep living. She also asked him if he saw the women as human beings. He said he didn't even see them as people. That's what Victoria Heuermann is carrying. The knowledge that her father could love her — genuinely love her, she believes — and simultaneously view other women as subhuman objects to be used and discarded. The knowledge that women were murdered and dismembered ten feet from where she sat as a child. The knowledge that her father confirmed one of his victims was killed in her parents' bed. And after hearing all of it, she forgave him. She said she has to in order to move forward. 
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins me to examine the psychological devastation facing Victoria Heuermann — what it means to carry a serial killer's legacy as your identity, how the brain processes the revelation that your safe childhood was a lie, and whether Victoria's path through this is as healthy as it appears or whether the hardest part of her journey hasn't started yet.
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It's the question everyone keeps asking. How did she not know? She lived in the same house. She slept in the same bed. And for nearly thirty years, Rex Heuermann was strangling and dismembering women in their basement while Asa Ellerup went about her life as if nothing was wrong. The easy answer is that she had to have known. The comfortable answer is that she looked the other way. 
But the real answer — the one the Peacock documentary just made impossible to ignore — is far more complicated, and far more disturbing. Asa Ellerup didn't come into this marriage as a woman with solid ground under her feet. She was adopted into a family where she never felt she belonged. She was assaulted as a teenager. She tried to end her own life. By the time Rex entered the picture, she wasn't looking for love — she was looking for someone to make the world stop hurting. He became that person. He became everything. And that's exactly why she couldn't see what he was. 
The therapist who worked with their family for more than two years put it this way: anything Rex said overwrote everything else. It wasn't that Asa chose not to believe the evidence. It's that Rex's voice was the only channel her brain could receive. 
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott sits down with me to unpack every dimension of Asa Ellerup's story — the trauma that made her vulnerable, the mechanisms that kept her blind, and whether any of us would have done anything different if we'd lived her life before Rex Heuermann ever walked into it. You might come in with judgment. You might leave with something else entirely.
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At 9:27 PM on February 1, 2021, Matthew Farwell entered Sandra Birchmore’s apartment building. At 9:56 PM, he left. Twenty-nine minutes. Sandra was never seen alive again. When her body was found three days later, she was wearing the same clothes. Federal prosecutors allege that inside those twenty-nine minutes, Farwell strangled Sandra and her unborn son, then staged the scene.
The forensic evidence prosecutors have assembled is devastating. Farwell’s DNA was found on the duffel bag strap used to strangle Sandra. His sperm cells were found in her underwear, contradicting his claim that he hadn’t been intimate with her in months. Sandra’s right clavicle showed an injury that occurred while she was alive, matching the buckle behind her head — evidence prosecutors say proves she could not have died in the position she was found. A broken pink flamingo necklace Sandra regularly wore was discovered tangled with her hair on the bedroom floor. Her phone recorded its final movements while Farwell was still inside the apartment.
Then there’s the reenactment. At a private gathering after Sandra’s death, an inebriated Farwell demonstrated how she supposedly died, positioning himself beneath a doorknob. The details he described had not been publicly revealed. He knew because, prosecutors allege, he staged the scene himself.
DNA testing later confirmed Farwell was not the biological father of Sandra’s unborn son. But both he and Sandra believed he was — and prosecutors say that belief is what drove him to kill her. Every piece of physical evidence points to homicide. And yet, for years, it was ruled something else entirely.
This is Part 3 of a five-part series on the Sandra Birchmore case.
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Sixteen months. Over a hundred hours of phone calls. Multiple trips to rural Iowa. An FBI dig infiltrated in a rental car. A Gacy connection nobody saw coming. Alleged mob ties. An unsolved robbery. 
Two sisters telling opposite stories. And a case that refuses to die. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta — host of the Defense Diaries podcast and the man behind the most comprehensive John Wayne Gacy investigation ever produced — tells the full story of his time inside the Don Studey case for the first time.
Don Studey is the alleged Green Hollow Killer — accused by his own daughter Lucy Studey-McKiddy of killing dozens of women and burying them in wells on the family's property near Thurman in Fremont County, Iowa. Bob drove to Green Hollow when the FBI moved on the property, got waved past a checkpoint, watched the dig from the fence line, and discovered that Gacy's first victim Tim McCoy was from the area and related to the Studey family. 
In the nearby towns, locals shared decades of stories about the man their parents warned them never to go near. Bob uncovered alleged connections to the Kansas City mob and an unsolved violent crime. Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Drake provides the behavioral analysis — real trauma, credible childhood outcry, possible memory exaggeration in the numbers. After three days the agencies closed the case. Lucy says they drilled the wrong well. 
The Paramount+ documentary My Killer Father: The Green Hollow Murders is streaming now. Full conversation with Tony Brueski, Robin Drake, and Bob Motta.
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He told American Idol cameras in 2013 that music was all he knew. That he loved his wife more than anything. That she nudged him to audition. Caleb Flynn got the golden ticket, went to Hollywood, and was cut before the televised rounds. He went back to Ohio and kept leading worship.
But by 2021, the worship career was over. A brief stint selling life insurance. Then a role as VP of Sales at a Tipp City company owned by Ashley's family. The man who built his identity around leading congregations in song was now selling commercial flooring for his in-laws.
After the arrest, court filings from Ashley's family painted a new picture. A life insurance policy with Caleb as the primary beneficiary. A demand for financial transparency. A domestic violence protection order to freeze accounts. The family's words in court: he had "the motive, opportunity, and means."
His bond was raised to $3.5 million. No contact with his children. Part 2 of our pre-trial series explores the man behind the public persona  --  from the church stage to the courtroom, and everything that shifted in between.
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