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Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to four murders and wants the plea withdrawn. His judge wiped every hearing from the calendar. His alibi is that he was out driving to look at the moon, and his DNA is on the knife sheath. He accused Anne Taylor of coercing his plea, and that opened every conversation they had. Sandra Birchmore sent six hundred texts the day she died. She told eighty people about her baby. Matthew Farwell's DNA is on the ligature that killed her, he entered her building in a mask, stayed twenty-nine minutes, and deleted everything. Eric Faddis, defense attorney and former prosecutor, joins Tony for four segments  —  the judge fight, Kohberger's evidence wall, Taylor's testimony, and whether the Farwell trial evidence closes a case Faddis called not open and shut.

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Christa Pike has been on tape, in her own voice, since January 14, 1995, when she waived her rights and talked to a Knoxville police investigator for forty-six typed pages about killing Colleen Slemmer two nights earlier. She has been on paper since March 30, 1996, when she was sentenced to death and wrote a letter the same day bragging about it. She has been on a recorded prison line since 2001. The complete three-part Hidden Killers documentary Satan's Helper: The Christa Pike Story puts three decades of her own words in order, in one cut. It opens nineteen days before the murder, at Christmas, with the story she told her mother.

The series starts in Beckley, West Virginia, in 1976 and counts the chances she was given. The grandmother who raised her, the juvenile lawyer who argued against a training school, the teacher who made her his aide, the staff who helped with the Job Corps application. Four people left the Knoxville Job Corps center the night of January 12, 1995, and three came back. A black leather jacket left on an office chair that Friday sat there until Tuesday morning, when an officer reached into the inside pocket. A jury heard the confession through headphones.

The last chapter goes inside the Tennessee Prison for Women, to a recreation cage during a fire in August 2001, a boot lace, and the call where she told her mother she'd premeditated this one. A personal trainer from New Jersey started driving to Tennessee to see her and ended up arrested over a prison key. The series ends on September 30, 2026, with the state's failed attempt to execute her, and with May Martinez, Colleen's mother, who says she never got back the piece of her daughter that Pike carried to breakfast.

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Sandra Birchmore paid for nursing school. She searched baby shower venues. She told eighty people she was having a baby and sent six hundred texts that day. She left no note. The defense says she ended her own life. Matthew Farwell's DNA is the major contributor on the ligature  —  the strap that tied her neck to a closet door handle. Surveillance puts him in her building for twenty-nine minutes in a mask and hood. Her phone stopped three minutes before he walked out. He went home and deleted every message. His wife was giving birth the next day. The trooper who ruled her death a suicide never collected the weapon and never recorded Farwell. Eric Faddis joins Tony to walk through the DNA on the weapon and the investigation that created reasonable doubt. What does a jury of mothers do with a defense that says a woman planning her baby's future chose to stop living?

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Richard Allen is serving a hundred and thirty years for the murders of Abby Williams and Libby German in Delphi, Indiana. He was convicted on a single unfired bullet, his own statement that he was on the trail, and more than sixty confessions made during thirteen months of solitary confinement. No DNA. No fingerprints. No blood. No witness who saw him harm anyone.

Everyone the defense says the evidence pointed to walks free.

This complete four-part docu-series traces the Delphi investigation from February 2017 to the 2026 appellate arguments — every lead the system lost and the case it built from what was left.

A tip marked "Cleared" by an unknown person and forgotten in a drawer for five years. A composite sketch that ran for two years before police said it was the wrong face. An FBI warrant on the property owner — probable cause sworn under oath — sealed and shelved. Early interviews erased by a malfunctioning recording system and never reconstructed.

A catfish account that communicated with Libby German and went unannounced for four years. A hundred-and-thirty-six-page defense filing naming men with alleged confessions, crime scene connections, and a car with dried blood — all excluded from trial.

A CVS pharmacy clerk with no criminal record put into maximum-security solitary confinement, documented in psychosis within six months, and convicted on the words he said while his mind was falling apart.

And a judge who made every exclusion ruling and then did something after the verdict — before the appeal could reach her courtroom — that this series examines.

On September 21, 2026, an appellate judge told Indiana: "You protected him into psychosis." Three judges are now reading the briefs. No deadline has been set.

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Bryan Kohberger accused Anne Taylor, Elisa Massoth, and Bicka Barlow of coercing his plea, hiding evidence, and fabricating stories about conditions on death row. The moment he filed the claim, attorney-client privilege opened. Three years of protected conversations are now fair game. Taylor's team filed a sealed memo before the plea telling Judge Hippler that Kohberger couldn't comprehend adverse rulings. Hippler denied the request for more time. Kohberger pleaded guilty weeks later. Now he's using that exact argument against her. If Taylor takes the stand, she brings the plea transcript  —  where he said yes to every question, initialed every page, and told the judge he was guilty because he is guilty. Eric Faddis joins Tony to examine the door Kohberger opened and the memo that could cut both ways. Could his attack on the woman who spent five and a half million dollars defending him blow up in his face?

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Lesley Davis met Sandra Birchmore at a Stoughton gym where both worked babysitting children. Sandra first mentioned Matthew Farwell when she was fifteen. Davis described her as “enamored.” Sandra had met Farwell through the department’s police explorers program. She was thirteen years old.

On Day 5 of Farwell’s federal murder trial, Davis told the jury about the last phone call — twenty-five minutes on February 1, 2021. Sandra never mentioned wanting to harm herself. Three days later she was dead.

Davis went to police with her mother and brother and named Farwell. Neither officer wrote it down. She called back. Sgt. Robert Kuhn also testified, identifying Farwell on surveillance video and describing the mask he wore as “very odd” for a man who despised wearing them. Prosecutors then showed the jury a call log entry from January 20, 2021 — twelve days before Sandra’s death — that a police chief didn’t learn about for three years.

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Before his guilty plea, Bryan Kohberger's defense filed a notice saying he was out driving that night  —  looking at the moon and the stars. No witness. His phone was off. Now he's asking a court to throw out his plea and let him argue it. The prosecution had DNA on the knife sheath, a Ka-Bar knife purchased with a gift card, over twenty phone pings near the house, and surveillance footage. A roommate identified him inside the home. The plea deal removed the death penalty. If it gets vacated, prosecutors already had a death notice filed. Eric Faddis, defense attorney and former prosecutor, breaks down the evidence wall, the alibi that already failed one test, and what realistic chance Kohberger has of ever seeing the inside of a courtroom again.

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Bryan Kohberger was set to appear in a Boise courtroom to argue that Judge Hippler should be removed from his case. Hippler filed an order the night before vacating the hearing and every other date on the post-conviction calendar. The disqualification argument, the June status conference, the evidentiary hearing on the plea withdrawal  —  gone. The prosecution already asked Hippler to dismiss the petition without a hearing, calling the claims unsupported. The defense says Hippler's sentencing language  —  grotesque acts of evil, nothing redeeming  —  shows bias. They want a new judge and a new courthouse. Eric Faddis joins Tony to explain why the judge at the center of the bias fight made this move. What does the prosecution need to end this on paper, and where do four families stand now that the calendar is blank?

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The question running through Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s story has never been whether she was harmed. The biopsy and the neurologist’s note settle it. The question is what came out of the harm. In prison she gained weight, dropped every medication, and called it the freest time of her life. After release she collected eight million followers, left a ninety-day marriage, had a baby on the anniversary of her walk-out, and went live slurring while Ken Urker ended the feed. At Nick Godejohn’s trial she testified she planned the murder. Nick got life. She served eight and a half years. Ken’s family says they’re afraid to cross her over Aurora. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott traces twenty-five years of documented record across four segments and asks whether the woman who came out of Dee Dee’s house knows what she’s doing — or whether knowing is beside the point.

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Patricia Jones weighed 217 pounds, twice Christa Pike's size by Pike's own estimate, and she was unconscious on the floor of a recreation cage at the Tennessee Prison for Women within minutes of a fire alarm on August 24, 2001. Pike had carried a boot lace out of her cell when the alarm went off. A sergeant who talked to her afterward said she was proud, unremorseful, and sure thirty more seconds would have done it. Six days later she said the same thing to her mother on a recorded line and called it premeditated. Chapter three of Satan's Helper: The Christa Pike Story, the Hidden Killers documentary on the Colleen Slemmer murder, is the record she built after a jury sentenced her to death.

The sentence came on March 30, 1996. She was twenty, the second woman in Tennessee to get one, and she cried and asked the judge if she could hug her mother before she went. She wasn't allowed to. The same day she wrote Tadaryl Shipp a letter about having ten months to live, and she signed it Little devil. Shipp, tried the next year, got life with the possibility of parole; a parole board turned him down in October 2025 and set his next hearing for 2031.

At her 2004 trial for the attack on Jones, Pike's story changed: she'd only meant to protect another inmate. On cross she admitted she kept choking Jones after Jones was unconscious. The jury gave her twenty-five years. In 2026 her clemency petition described a mentally ill 18-year-old kid, and Governor Bill Lee denied it two days before the state tried, and failed, to execute her. Tony closes with the mother who drove up from Florida, and with the piece of her daughter she says she's still owed.

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