• Russell Brand Guilty Verdict + EDP445 Charged After Chris Hansen Interview
    Nov 6 2026
    Two men spent years acting like nobody could prove anything.

    This week they found out the most dangerous witness was themselves.

    A London jury convicted Russell Brand of rape and three counts of sexual assault, and acquitted him on three counts. He’s sentenced Monday. I cover the trial and his slide from left-wing darling to MAHA mascot.EDP445, Bryant Moreland, was charged with four felonies and arrested in Nevada, five years after the 2021 “cupcake” sting.

    He hasn’t gone to trial. His own words to Chris Hansen are now the center of the case.


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  • Matthew Farwell Trial, Lori Vallow Appeal, Lindsay Clancy Retrial & Olney House of Horrors
    Nov 4 2026
    The red wave died on a truck stop bathroom floor, I was spectacularly wrong about Michigan, and Matthew Farwell’s defense spent two days trying to snap the prosecution’s case over a hyoid bone. Also, Lori Vallow is back, because that woman will outlive us all out of pure spite.IN THIS EPISODEElection Fallout: Democrats took the House and the Senate, flipping Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, Kansas and Iowa. Kansas! A Democrat! First time since 1932! I gloat, I mourn Ken Paxton (I do not), and I unveil the agenda: litter boxes in every classroom, mandatory trans for your Uncle Gary, and drag story hour on Fox and Friends. Plus a public apology to Abdul El-Sayed, who I swore up and down was going to lose. Never let me near a betting app.Matthew Farwell Trial, Nov. 2-3: The defense came for Dr. William Smock with a battering ram. Kentucky’s own chief medical examiner on what Smock does and doesn’t do, a hyoid bone specialist in a full-blown rematch with him, a pattern expert on the strap clasp, a DNA expert describing a ligature allegedly crumpled into plastic like a gym sock and never compared to the twin brother, and the FBI’s own bone expert, called by the defense, not the government. The judge told two experts “you may be losing the jury here,” which is federal for “shut up, juror seven is drooling.” Closings Friday. Farwell has pleaded not guilty and is presumed innocent.Lori Vallow Daybell: The reason this podcast exists is asking the Idaho Supreme Court for a do-over, arguing she was robbed of her lawyer, a man who also represented her co-defendant. One justice called him a “loose cannon, bull in a china shop, run amok.” Three metaphors, one question. And she’s willing to risk the death penalty coming back to get there. Lindsay Clancy: Prosecutors want round two but won’t say on what charges. Double jeopardy, the holdout juror, a gag order fight, and Kevin Reddington telling a sitting judge “you’re not going to stop me.” I break down every charge and option on the table and tell you exactly why retrying her is a colossal waste of Massachusetts’ money. Plus a Florida woman charged with secretly recording Patrick Clancy’s father for Instagram content. Leave that family alone.The Olney House: No new evidence, just the most unhinged paper trail I’ve read all year. R.C. Horsch’s family promising a judge “no recurrence of illegal activity,” a cooperation deal that shaved years off a 20-year mandatory minimum and charged nobody, a missing woman who once spoke for him in court, and a “letter from the mayor” telling cops not to arrest him that nobody can find. Eugene Horsch faces federal firearms and false-credential charges, is not charged in connection with the missing women, and is presumed innocent.RESOURCESThere is no 24-hour wait to report someone missing. Do it now. NamUs: namus.nij.ojp.gov988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: call or text 988SOURCESBoston Globe, NBC Boston, Boston.com, MassLive, Enterprise News, CBS Boston, East Idaho News, AP, The Blaze, Men’s Journal, ABA Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, 6abc, Fox 29, NBC Philadelphia, CBS Philadelphia, CBS News, NPR, Al Jazeera. Full links and transcript at wesawthedevil.comCOME YELL WITH MEPatreon: We Saw the Devil (the unfiltered, off-the-leash version)Instagram: @wesawthedevilpodcast and @robin_wstdThreads: @wesawthedevilpodcastTikTok: @wesawthedeviltruecrimeX: @wesawthedevilFacebook: wesawthedevilTranscripts: wesawthedevil.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-a-true-crime-podcast--4433638/support.Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.comPatreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevilRobin's Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/robin_wstdTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevilInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcastTikTok: tiktok.com/@wesawthedeviltruecrime
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  • The Death Penalty & Executions: The Crowd at the Scaffold
    Nov 3 2026
    In 1757, Paris tore a man apart with horses while Casanova rented a window to watch. In 2026, Tennessee pushed two doses of pentobarbital into Christa Pike’s arms, closed a curtain, and failed to kill her. And a whole lot of people were furious that she lived.


    Tonight we’re not coming for a killer. We’re coming for the audience. That includes you, and it definitely includes me.


    Robin breaks down Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish and Thomas Mathiesen’s “synopticon” in plain English: why the state moved executions behind walls, how surveillance taught us to police ourselves, and how the internet handed every one of us a seat at the scaffold. From Court TV to Karen Read, mugshot websites to Ring doorbells, Reddit’s Boston Marathon witch hunt to a tarot-reading TikToker hit with a $10 million defamation verdict, we look at what happens when the crowd stops watching punishment and starts choosing who gets punished.


    Then we go inside the failed execution of Christa Pike at Riverbend in Nashville: the crime against 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, the childhood abuse Pike’s jury never heard about, the warnings the state ignored, the curtain that closed while witnesses listened to her breathe, and the doctor who now says the drug went into the tissue of her arms instead of her veins. Plus the Pentagon’s plan to livestream a firing squad, the politicians shopping for new ways to kill, and the bloodlust that came from the people you’d least expect.


    The Reality Check is the most direct Robin has ever been: the science on deterrence, brain development, trauma, lethal injection, wrongful convictions, and victims’ families, and why cheering for an execution says more about us than about the person on the gurney.



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    SELECTED SOURCES
    Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish (1975)
    Thomas Mathiesen, “The Viewer Society,” Theoretical Criminology (1997)
    Associated Press, minute-by-minute account of Christa Pike’s failed execution
    Death Penalty Information Center, Christa Pike case timeline, innocence data, and 2025 year-end report
    Nashville Banner reporting on the Pike case
    New York Magazine interview with Dr. Mark Fowler, via Fox News
    NPR, “Gasping for Air: Autopsies Reveal Troubling Effects of Lethal Injection” (2020)
    Gross et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2014)
    Armour and Umbreit, Marquette Law Review
    de Quervain et al., Science (2004); Carlsmith, Wilson and Gilbert (2008)
    National Registry of Exonerations

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  • The Matthew Farwell Trial Week 3: Prosecution Rests, Defense Begins
    Oct 31 2026
    ***Due to a busy schedule, this episode is unedited and raw.

    Happy Halloween!


    Matthew Farwell trial, week 3: the prosecution rests in the Sandra Birchmore murder case, and the defense starts building its suicide argument. We cover all five days of testimony, Monday through Friday.


    Former Stoughton police detective Matthew Farwell is on trial in Boston federal court, charged with killing 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore and her unborn child in her Canton, Massachusetts apartment in February 2021 and staging it as a suicide. Prosecutors say he groomed and sexually exploited her starting when she was 15 in the Stoughton Police Explorers program. Farwell has pleaded not guilty. His defense says Birchmore died by suicide after he ended their affair.


    IN THIS EPISODE
    • Monday: the medical examiner who first ruled Sandra Birchmore’s death a suicide explains what Massachusetts State Police never told her, including the “nothing new to report” email
    • Tuesday: Matthew Farwell’s twin brother, William “Billy” Farwell, testifies under immunity: “I didn’t believe my brother was that dumb,” the “Did you Tom Brady that?” phone comment, and his account of a parking-lot meeting with lead investigator John Fanning
    • Tuesday: strangulation expert Dr. William Smock on the fractured hyoid bone, the clasp imprint, the broken flamingo necklace, and why he calls it an altered crime scene
    • The July 2024 truck crash and “goodbye letter” before Farwell’s FBI arrest
    • Wednesday: digital forensics expert Jessica Hyde’s second-by-second phone timeline (9:13 to 9:43 p.m.), the government rests, and former U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins is escorted out of court
    • Thursday: the defense’s first full day: Sandra’s ex-boyfriend, Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Mindy Hull, and the assistant who removed her body
    • Friday: defense forensic psychiatrist Dr. Melissa Piasecki on suicide risk factors, and the cross-examination question the jury never heard answered
    • Where the Farwell trial stands: remaining defense witnesses, closing arguments, and when the jury could get the case




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  • I'm Not Sorry: Violence Against Women, the Manosphere, and Why So Many of Us Are Done
    Oct 27 2026
    Six in ten American women have experienced intimate partner violence. Nearly one in five have survived the kind that can kill. The US ranks 31st in the world on women's wellbeing. A third of Gen Z men surveyed globally say a wife should always obey her husband. And two of the loudest voices selling masculinity to boys are facing rape charges.


    This episode is about why so many women are saying out loud that they hate men, and why Robin's not apologizing.


    In this episode:

    -The "last woman on earth" question and what history says happens to women when society collapses
    - New national data from Tulane and UC San Diego, Georgetown's Women, Peace and Security Index, and femicide
    - Andrew Tate's new indictment and the Clavicular arraignment
    - The Lindsay Clancy mistrial, the holdout juror, and why men couldn't let it go
    - Five of Donald Trump's most misogynistic quotes
    - Pauline Harmange's "I Hate Men" and the French official who tried to ban it
    - Reality Check: what men, women, and institutions can actually do

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  • Updates: Christa Pike, Lindsay Clancy, Linda Henning, & the End of the Olney Search
    Oct 26 2026
    Four updates this week, and the strangest is out of New Mexico.


    In 2002, Linda Henning stood trial for her life in the 1999 disappearance and presumed murder of Girly Chew Hossencofft, a bank teller whose body has never been found. Last week a judge ruled Henning had been so delusional she believed she was on trial over "golden discs." The judge threw out the conviction, ordered a new trial, and on Friday let her out after 27 years in custody. We go through the con man who called himself a surgeon, the lizard-people seminar, the blood evidence, the defense that backfired, and why trying someone who can't understand their own trial is unconstitutional.


    Also in this episode:


    OLNEY: The FBI and Philadelphia police have wrapped their search of 417 W. Chew Ave. No human remains found. Animal bones, a safe hidden in a wall, adipocere ("grave wax"), and DNA still being tested. Seven women are still connected to the house.
    LINDSAY CLANCY: A judge rejects the defense bid to investigate the holdout juror, and a new poll says nearly half of Massachusetts voters want her retried.
    CHRISTA PIKE: Tennessee tried to execute her in Nashville on Sept. 30 and failed. We cover what happened in the chamber, what's happened since, this week's new court filing, and whether the state can try again.

    Olney tips: Philadelphia Police, 215-686-TIPS (8477). Homicide Unit: 215-686-3334.

    Next episode: an update on the Matthew Farwell trial.


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  • The Matthew Farwell Trial, Week 2: Sandra Birchmore in Her Own Words
    Oct 21 2026
    "If anyone should be scared it's not you." Sandra Birchmore wrote that to Matthew Farwell in December 2020, weeks before she was found dead in her Canton apartment. This week the jury in Farwell's federal trial stopped hearing about Sandra and started hearing from her. Over three days on the stand, an FBI agent read their messages aloud: the October 2020 ultimatum after she learned his wife was pregnant, the sign announcing her own pregnancy, his reply calling her "the worst person on the face of the earth," and his texts the night a friend called his police department. Then a Stoughton dispatcher told jurors what Farwell's face did when he heard about that call. In this episode:
    • Monday's direct: the 49 meetings the FBI charted, including whether he was on the clock
    • The October 2020 ultimatum, in Sandra's words
    • His January 2021 text about chokeholds, 24 days before her death
    • "A complete 180": the key, the closet, and the week prosecutors call the lull
    • The defense cross: the baby's biological father, and Sandra's mental health in her own words
    • Sandra's OB-GYN: a viable pregnancy, no suicidal ideation, "no indications of her destabilizing"
    • The dispatcher who took the January 20 call, and the desk officer who said forget it
    • A Winnie the Pooh onesie and a Valentine's Day announcement she never got to make
    • The judge's rulings on exhibits and the three affair witnesses
    • Updated verdict prediction
    Reality Check: When Grooming Comes With a Badge. How grooming by a police officer differs from grooming by an ordinary adult, from authority bias and the psychology of uniforms to why ride-alongs became a pipeline for abuse. Plus the Marshall Project's findings on Police Explorer programs, Massachusetts's new law closing the age of consent loophole, and why "she participated" is one of the most dishonest things you can say about a child and the adult with power over her.

    Matthew Farwell has pleaded not guilty to killing a witness or victim and to causing the death of an unborn child. He is presumed innocent. All charges are allegations. The defense has not yet presented its case. William Farwell has never been charged with any crime.

    Content note: child sexual abuse and grooming, strangulation, suicide and self-harm, pregnancy loss. Explicit messages written when Sandra was a minor are described, not read. If you're struggling, call or text 988. RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-4673 Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-422-4453 National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233

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  • The Michael Farwell Trial: Week One Recap
    Oct 19 2026
    "We wanted to make sure we got a statement out of him, whether truthful or otherwise."


    That's the Massachusetts state trooper who investigated Sandra Birchmore's death, explaining to a federal jury why he and his supervisor interviewed the married Stoughton detective at the center of her life in a school parking lot. No recording. No notes.


    Week one of United States v. Matthew Farwell is in the books, and the federal government is prosecuting two things at once: the former detective accused of killing Sandra, and the state investigation that called her death a suicide for three and a half years. We go day by day through opening statements and the first four days of testimony, then give you our current verdict prediction.


    In this episode:
    • Opening statements: the government's "ultimatum" theory, the January 20, 2021 call to Stoughton police, and the closet texts eight days before Sandra died
    • The defense case: an affair, a breakup, a suicide ribbon search, and a fight over the science, the DNA, and the mask
    • The weekend motions: three women, "any one of you," and why one sentence raised the judge's eyebrows
    • Trooper Matthew Dunne under fire: the broken necklace, the duffel bag, and the parking lot
    • Sgt. Robert Kuhn, Lesley Davis, Chief Donna McNamara, and Nicholas Guarino (yes, that Guarino)
    • "Mfarwell1," lost files, an Apple Watch nobody could open, and a recording of the January 20 call that automatically purged
    • The FBI takes the stand: her phone's last steps at 9:40 p.m., a baby name list, and the Cellebrite searches
    Reality Check: where the case stands



    SOURCES
    Rough transcript of opening statements (U.S. Attorney's Office, D. Mass.): https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/media/1465501/dl CBS Boston, openings: https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/matthew-farwell-sandra-birchmore-trial-opening-statements/ CBS Boston, Oct 13: https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/matthew-farwell-trial-sandra-birchmore-stoughton-ma/ CBS Boston, Oct 15: https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/matthew-farwell-trial-updates-sandra-birchmore/ CBS Boston, Oct 16: https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/matthew-farwell-trial-testimony-sandra-birchmore-massachusetts/ Boston Globe, Oct 15: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/15/metro/sandra-birchmore-trial-live-updates/ Boston Globe, Oct 16: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/16/metro/sandra-birchmore-trial-live-updates/ NBC Boston, affairs motion: https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/matthew-farwell-trial-prosecutors-want-3-women-he-allegedly-had-affairs-with-to-testify/4029669/ LA Magazine: https://lamag.com/crimeinla/cop-accused-of-murder-wore-mask-only-at-crime-scene-witness-tells-jury/ Pew Research Center: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/06/14/fewer-than-1-of-defendants-in-federal-criminal-cases-were-acquitted-in-2022/



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