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Kevin Reddington spent an entire trial arguing Lindsay Clancy killed her three children but wasn't criminally responsible because of postpartum psychosis. He previously offered to stipulate the act in writing. Then he stood before Judge William Sullivan and said there is no evidence she did it. The Rule 25 motion asks the court to find that prosecutors failed to prove their case — and to enter a not-guilty finding without a retrial. Prosecutors told the judge they'd never heard this argument from the defense before. The judge delayed his ruling until November 2. This segment unpacks the legal mechanics, what the shift means for Patrick Clancy, and whether any judge would actually grant this. Clancy has pleaded not guilty.
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Caleb Flynn texted Alleigha Botner at 4 AM about ways to kill Ashley and not go to jail. Botner read every message across a year and a half — over 107,000 texts — and stayed in the affair. She showed up at the family's home the morning after Ashley was shot. She initially lied to the FBI. On the stand, she admitted she once texted that she wanted Ashley dead too. Flynn was convicted of aggravated murder. Could civil court force the mistress to answer for everything she knew and everything she ignored? A wrongful death suit doesn't need proof beyond reasonable doubt. It needs a preponderance. Flynn has been convicted. All individuals discussed are presumed innocent of any uncharged conduct until proven guilty.
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Bryan Kohberger’s defense attorney Anne Taylor told Judge Hippler in a sealed filing that her client couldn’t rationally understand the Idaho murder case against him. She described Kohberger as struggling to comprehend adverse rulings and unable to make consequential decisions about his own defense. The judge denied her request for more time on June 26, 2025.
Six days later, Kohberger pleaded guilty to all four counts of first-degree murder — the November 2022 killings of University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. At the plea hearing, Hippler asked Taylor whether she’d had enough time to discuss the case with her client, and she said yes.
That sealed filing is now public. Kohberger has filed a post-conviction petition arguing the plea should be thrown out. He claims his attorneys hid critical evidence, including hair evidence he says would have pointed to an unidentified attacker.
His own defense expert, Ruth Ballard, analyzed that hair and concluded it physically matched Ethan Chapin’s own hair. Her report was completed a month before the plea deal was signed.
Taylor’s defense team never determined Kohberger was incompetent. They explicitly denied reaching that conclusion and said they needed more time. Forensic criminologist Brent Turvey, a former member of the defense team, has said Taylor and her co-counsel will have to answer “very difficult questions.”
The court hears arguments October 15 on whether Hippler should step aside. An amended petition follows in November. The evidentiary hearing, if it proceeds in June 2027, puts Anne Taylor on the stand.
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The Caleb Flynn murder trial has produced evidence, testimony, and more than 107,000 text messages. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski not to relitigate the evidence but to read the psychology — a three-part interview that traces the arc from church volunteer to murder defendant through the relationship that allegedly drove it.
Part one starts where the relationship started: CLC church in Miami County, Ohio. Flynn was 36, married, embedded in worship leadership. Botner was 21 and interning. Scott maps the power imbalance — the age gap, the spiritual “halo effect,” the “roommate” narrative — and explains why each detail is a clinical finding, not just a biographical footnote. The AI-generated love songs and matching Harry Potter tattoos that sound absurd in a courtroom are the gestures Scott calls most significant.
Part two follows the eighteen-month holding pattern. Flynn wanted his wife, his children, his church reputation, and his mistress — simultaneously and permanently. Botner set a January deadline for him to leave Ashley. He ignored it. She left. On Valentine’s Day, he returned. Scott explains the intermittent reinforcement and the sunk-cost fallacy that kept Botner locked in despite receiving nothing she’d been promised.
Part three confronts the 107,000 texts and their escalation. Botner testified under oath that she texted “I want to kill her” about Ashley. The public debate over her complicity has split hard. Scott reads both sides, then turns the lens: if Flynn had chosen to stay with Ashley, how safe was the woman carrying all of his darkest admissions? Scott says the danger ran in both directions — and identifies when this stopped being a relationship and became something lethal.
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Nine years after it happened, the Stoughton Police Department wrote it down: an inappropriate relationship between one of its officers, Matthew Farwell, and a girl in its youth program, beginning in the spring of 2013 when she was 15. That finding is the floor of Part 1 of the Sandra Birchmore story. It follows a 12-year-old who idolized cops into a program the department ran, and out the other side into a Canton apartment where a Stoughton officer held a copy of her key.
Robert Devine built the Stoughton Explorers into a junior police academy and rose to deputy chief while running it. The department demoted him once for lying and kept him on the force. He brought back two former Explorers, the Farwell twins, as instructors; the department's own report called them his understudies. A prior chief had rejected William Farwell's application in 2011, citing behavior he called incompatible with police work. Stoughton hired him in 2017.
Matthew Farwell was seven months on the job when, according to the FBI, he sent Sandra a Facebook friend request and met her at the public library under the guise of tutoring. She later typed the date it became physical into a text: April 10, 2013. By 2019, prosecutors say, he was tracking her location and ordering her to clear out their texts.
When she told him she was pregnant in December 2020, prosecutors say his first reply was that he had nothing to say. Within weeks, friends told the FBI, he'd put her in a headlock and said he wished she would die. Four days after a friend reported him to his own department, prosecutors say, he asked Sandra for a spare key. He's charged with killing her and has pleaded not guilty. Part 2 takes on what the state did next.
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