The surgeries in Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s medical file are real: eye procedures, ear tubes, salivary glands removed because Dee Dee said she drooled, a feeding tube that kept her on PediaSure into her twenties.

Her teeth were pulled. She sat in a wheelchair she never needed. In 2001, Tulane tested her for muscular dystrophy and the biopsy came back negative.

Dee Dee found another doctor. In 2007, neurologist Bernardo Flasterstein noted “Munchausen by proxy” in Gypsy’s chart after watching her stand — and never picked up the phone.

Prosecutor Dan Patterson said he could have charged first-degree murder and didn’t think it was fair, given twenty years of documented harm. Rod Blanchard called on Gypsy’s 18th birthday and Dee Dee told him she thought she was 14. A growing crowd online says the Munchausen story was fabricated. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines the records, the doctors, and the denial.

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“And, yes, I'm eating breakfast with it.” Christa Pike said that to her friend Kim Iloilo at breakfast on January 13, 1995, about a piece of Colleen Slemmer's skull she was carrying in her pocket. Kim had already heard the rest the night before, when Pike came to her room, said she'd just killed Colleen, and danced in a circle singing la, la, la while she described it. Kim didn't go to the police. Neither did the student Pike showed the bone to in class later that morning while pointing at the brown spots on her shoes. Chapter two of Satan's Helper: The Christa Pike Story, the Hidden Killers documentary on the Colleen Slemmer murder, is the six days from the walk to the steam plant to the piece of bone that closed the case.

The Knox County medical examiner, Dr. Sandra Elkins, started lettering the cuts A, B, C and ran out of alphabet. They began with a six-inch wound across the throat. There were fresh bruises on Colleen's knees, the kind you get from crawling, and defensive wounds on her right arm. None of the cuts, Elkins testified, would have knocked her out. What killed her was at least four blows to the head with a chunk of asphalt.

Pike told police she stood and watched Colleen bleed. She told them Colleen begged, and that the more Colleen talked, the more she kicked her in the face. The afternoon after the killing, by one officer's account, she walked up to the crime-scene tape, giggled, and asked whether there were any suspects. She was wearing a pentagram on a chain; a pentagram had been carved into Colleen's chest. Tony lays out the confession, the autopsy, and the jacket. Chapter three is what the jury did with it.

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Ken Urker wrote Gypsy Rose Blanchard in 2017 after the HBO documentary. He proposed in prison in 2018 and ended it in 2019, saying she needed time to build her own identity. Ryan Anderson wrote in 2020 after the same film and married her at Chillicothe in 2022 with Lifetime’s cameras rolling. Weeks before that wedding she was on the phone with Ken, telling him about a dream where she left Ryan. Two men fell in love with a documentary. She said yes to both. She went in at 23 with a second-grade education. She gained fourteen pounds her first month, came off every medication, and called prison the freest years of her life. Under oath she said she talked Nick into it and handed him the knife. Days before release she said, “She didn’t deserve that.” Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines what eight years behind bars built and what it didn’t.

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In December 2020, Sandra Birchmore found out she was pregnant and told Matthew Farwell the baby was his. Prosecutors say that conversation is why she died on February 1, 2021, strangled in her Canton apartment and left to look like a suicide by the former Stoughton detective who had known her since she was a child in the department's Explorers program. Farwell has pleaded not guilty and says she took her own life.

DNA testing later excluded Farwell as the father. Prosecutors say that changes nothing about his state of mind, and point to messages between the two of them showing he believed the child was his while Sandra was making appointments and contacting attorneys about support.

The legal fight that shapes this trial is over whose voice the jury hears. Judge Denise Casper ruled that Sandra's texts, her social media, her statements to people who knew her and excerpts from her handwritten journals all come in. The defense argued it was hearsay from a woman who cannot be cross-examined. Prosecutors won on a rule that strips a defendant of that objection when he is the reason she cannot testify.

Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski on what that ruling does to the defense.

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Two letters asked Judge Jeannine Pratt to go easy on Caleb Flynn, and this episode takes them apart sentence by sentence. Mike and Kim Flynn spent twenty-two years pastoring a Church of God congregation in Grasston, Minnesota. They wrote to the judge on October 2, 2026, three days after a jury found their son guilty of the aggravated murder of Ashley Flynn. The letters were filed as Defendant's Exhibits A and B. Mike's runs about three hundred words. He asked for clemency, pointed to "the lack of any other criminal record," wrote that his son "is not the stereo type of criminal," and offered a jail guard's words as evidence of the man he raised. Kim's runs about two hundred sixty. She asked the court to consider "the 38 years before the recent choices he's made" and described a leader "in every area of his life." She signed off by thanking the judge "for your mercy and compassion in this matter" before any ruling existed. The word mother appears once in Kim's letter, and it refers to Kim. Ashley Flynn, a mother of two, is not named in either letter, and neither are her daughters. The jury that convicted Caleb had read his texts to his girlfriend, now in evidence, including "Kill her" and "I just want her dead and gone." Prosecutors' sentencing memo added that he spoke privately with each daughter before her forensic interview and told them to deny he had coached them. His attorney objected that none of that was presented at trial, and the judge allowed it. Pratt found no remorse and gave him life without parole. Caleb's own daughters, ten and twelve, wrote letters that were read in court. Where his parents wrote "this situation," his twelve-year-old wrote "tell everyone you did it."

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Ken Urker was found dead in bed at his Raceland, Louisiana home on October 1 — his thirty-fourth birthday. Lafourche Parish deputies confirmed his death after family members climbed through a bedroom window for a welfare check. He had told family he was severely depressed the night before at church. No official cause of death has been released. Before the autopsy was finished, Gypsy Rose Blanchard gave an exclusive interview to People magazine, called it a suspected overdose, blamed cyberbullying, and launched a petition for "Kenan's Law." Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski examine the behavioral psychology of someone who moves to control the media narrative before the investigation has begun — and whether it looks like panic or calculation.

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Bryan Kohberger's reason for firing his judge is the judge's own sentencing speech. At the July 2025 sentencing, Judge Steven Hippler called Kohberger a "faceless coward," the "worst of the worst," and said his acts had buried anything human in him. Kohberger's appointed attorney Greg Rauch argues that a judge who said that can't fairly decide whether Kohberger's guilty plea was coerced, especially with no jury in the room; this is a bench proceeding, where Hippler alone rules. The motion gets argued October 15, 2026, in front of Hippler. Kohberger pleaded guilty on July 2, 2025, to four murders and told Hippler under oath that no one had promised him anything. His handwritten petition says his lawyers coerced him and hid evidence. Prosecutors want it thrown out. Tony takes listener questions on a criminology student who claims he didn't understand, the privilege he gave up by attacking Anne Taylor, and what the families are owed.

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