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Jim Bob Duggar watched one son go to prison. He changed nothing. Not one safeguard. Not one rule. Not one conversation about how he raises men. He kept the system running — and according to the state of Florida, it allegedly produced another son facing life felonies for harming a child.

Joseph Duggar’s recorded jail calls from Washington County tell the whole story. A man performing faith while erasing his victim from existence. He reads Ruth and calls it encouraging. He prays for hours and never prays for the child. He tells Kendra he’s upset to be “in this situation” — not devastated by what he allegedly did, but upset that consequences found him. He manages his rental property from a concrete bench in solitary. And he tells his wife their view of God was tainted by outside influences — redistributing blame with Scripture as the delivery system.

Kendra — charged with false imprisonment and child endangerment — tells him everybody loves him and warns him to be careful on the messaging system. She is organized, competent, and choosing. Every choice protects Joseph.

Jim Bob allegedly acknowledged Joseph’s guilt in an email and compared him to a falsely accused biblical figure in the same paragraph. The same father, the same playbook, the same machine. Josh was the prototype. Joseph is the rerun. And the God this family keeps invoking said what He said about men who harm children — three times, in three Gospels, with no ambiguity.

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Wisdom Booklet 36 taught that if a woman doesn’t cry out during an attack, God holds her equally guilty with her attacker. Children as young as five studied this material. The Duggar family curriculum trained girls to view their bodies as spiritual hazards, quizzed them on “eye traps” in their clothing, and rewrote biblical stories of victimized women to blame the victims. A counseling document assumed abuse survivors were partly at fault. And Bill Gothard — the author — was accused of sexual harassment by more than thirty women. We go inside the gender teachings and the silence they were designed to produce.

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The parents in Tabor and Thurman told their kids the same thing for decades — don't go into the hollow. Stay away from Don Studey. He was the boogeyman of Green Hollow, Iowa, and the community around him allegedly knew exactly what kind of man he was. 

When criminal defense attorney Bob Motta went into those small towns to interview locals about the alleged Green Hollow Killer, everyone wanted to talk. People who knew Don Studey personally told Bob they wouldn't be surprised if bodies turned up in those wells. The younger generation shared the legends they'd grown up hearing. The mayor invited him to dinner. And a deputy sheriff standing on the fence line at the dig site dropped a bombshell that shook Bob to his core — John Wayne Gacy's first known victim, Tim McCoy, was from Green Hollow and was related to the Studey family by blood. 

Bob had just produced the most comprehensive Gacy investigation in podcast history and had been talking to Lucy Studey-McKiddy for months. She never mentioned the connection. Beyond the Gacy revelation, Bob uncovered alleged ties between Don Studey and motorcycle clubs, the Kansas City organized crime outfit, and an unsolved supper club robbery where people were shot and killed — with multiple local sources reportedly naming Studey as one of the participants. 

The Paramount+ documentary My Killer Father: The Green Hollow Murders is streaming now. Part two of the conversation with Bob Motta.

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A criminal defense attorney with no credentials, no badge, and a rental Chevy Caprice that happened to look like a cop car drove six hours to a remote Iowa crime scene — and got closer to the dig than the local deputies assigned to guard it. Bob Motta had been investigating the Don Studey case for months. The alleged Green Hollow Killer is accused by his own daughter, Lucy Studey-McKiddy, of killing dozens of women over decades and burying them in wells on property near Thurman in Fremont County, Iowa — about forty miles from Omaha. 

When Bob got word that the FBI, the Iowa DCI, and the Fremont County Sheriff's Office were descending on the property, he packed his car and drove straight to Green Hollow. What happened over the next three days reads like a true crime thriller — arriving in the hollow after dark, going viral on TikTok while local cops watched in real time, getting waved past a checkpoint by a deputy who thought he was law enforcement, being confronted by the sheriff who recognized him from his videos, and ultimately making it onto the fence line to watch federal agents core-drill a well to at least eighty-five feet. 

fter parts of three days, the agencies announced they found nothing and closed the case. Lucy says they searched the wrong well on a property spanning over four hundred acres. The Paramount+ documentary My Killer Father: The Green Hollow Murders explores the case further. This is part one.

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Sandra Birchmore believed Matthew Farwell was coming around. He brought ginger ale to her apartment. She texted a friend that things were getting better. She was pregnant, making plans, contacting lawyers, preparing for a future she would never see. Farwell was making different plans entirely.

According to federal prosecutors, Farwell told one person that if Sandra didn’t end the pregnancy, he would “take care of the problem himself.” He told another he needed to “put crazy back in the bag.” He told a third that “the problem was going to take care of itself.” Three different people. Three different conversations. All pointing toward a man who viewed a pregnant woman as a problem to be eliminated.

Sandra wasn’t just talking to friends. She had contacted lawyers. Prosecutors say she was developing a plan for child support and was prepared to disclose that Farwell had abused her since she was underage. For a married detective with a pregnant wife at home, Sandra had become an existential threat to everything he’d built.

Then came January 20, 2021. Eleven days before Sandra’s death. Her friend called the Stoughton Police Department to report Farwell’s relationship with Sandra. The department employee who took the call told Farwell. The institution that should have protected Sandra hand-delivered the warning to the man prosecutors say killed her.

On February 1, surveillance cameras captured Sandra walking in and out of her Canton apartment building. At 9:27 PM, Farwell entered. At 9:56 PM, he left. Sandra was never seen alive again.

This is Part 2 of a five-part series on the Sandra Birchmore case.

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Three high-profile cases with active proceedings across multiple jurisdictions. Nick Reiner, 32, faces two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances — including the allegation of multiple murders and use of a deadly weapon — in the alleged stabbing deaths of his parents, Rob Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 70, at their Brentwood residence. He pled not guilty through public defender Kimberly Greene. Prosecutors have not announced whether they will seek the death penalty. Reports of an alleged tell-all manuscript from Twin Towers Correctional Facility add a layer of complexity to what may become a mental health–centered defense.

David Anthony Burke, 21, known as D4vd, faces one count of first-degree murder with special circumstances — including financial gain and murder of a witness — one count of continuous abuse of a child under fourteen, and one count of unlawful mutilation of human remains in the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, 14. The autopsy lists the cause of death as multiple penetrating injuries to the torso. Prosecutors report forty terabytes of evidence, a wiretap, and exploitation material recovered from Burke’s phone. He pled not guilty. A preliminary hearing has been set.

Joseph Garrett Duggar, 31, faces two felony charges in Bay County, Florida, for alleged conduct involving a minor under twelve during a 2020 family trip. He pled not guilty and posted $600,000 bond. He and his wife, Kendra Duggar, 27, also face four counts each of second-degree endangering the welfare of a minor and four counts each of second-degree false imprisonment in Washington County, Arkansas.

Robin Dreeke, retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief, provides behavioral and procedural analysis across all three cases in a listener-driven Q&A.

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The 911 call from 932 Cunningham Court has been heard millions of times. A man sobbing, telling a dispatcher that someone broke in and shot his wife. Nearly eight minutes of panic, with two little girls asleep in the next room and a woman dead in the master bedroom.

But what investigators found allegedly told a different story. The garage side door that Caleb Flynn said the intruder used was blocked by a refrigerator. His handgun's storage location  --  the truck console  --  was sitting open. Two shell casings from a 9mm were on the floor near the bed where Ashley Flynn, 37, lay with two gunshot wounds to the head. She was a mother, a volleyball coach, a substitute teacher, and eight days short of her 38th birthday.

Three days later, Caleb Flynn  --  former American Idol contestant and worship pastor  --  was arrested and charged. The criminal complaint accused him of staging the entire scene. He has pleaded not guilty to all 11 counts, including aggravated murder.

In this first installment of our four-part series ahead of the May 4 trial, we walk through the night that started it all. The 911 call that sounded like terror. The bodycam footage that captured a husband in apparent freefall. And the physical evidence that, according to prosecutors, tells a completely different story than the voice on the phone.

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Joseph Garrett Duggar, 31, of Tontitown, Arkansas, faces two felony charges in Bay County, Florida: lewd and lascivious molestation of a victim under twelve and lewd and lascivious behavior by a person eighteen or older. The charges stem from alleged incidents during a 2020 family trip to Panama City Beach. A fourteen-year-old complainant disclosed to investigators that Duggar allegedly engaged in inappropriate contact with her on multiple occasions when she was nine years old. According to the arrest affidavit, Duggar made admissions to the complainant’s father and subsequently to a Tontitown police detective monitoring a recorded phone call.

Duggar pled not guilty via written plea and waiver of arraignment filed by defense counsel. He posted $600,000 bond with conditions prohibiting unsupervised contact with any person under eighteen. In a separate matter, both Joseph and Kendra Duggar, 27, face four counts each of second-degree endangering the welfare of a minor and four counts each of second-degree false imprisonment in Washington County, Arkansas, charges reportedly connected to conditions discovered during a law enforcement search of their residence.

Robin Dreeke, retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief, provides behavioral analysis in a listener Q&A covering the procedural and psychological dimensions of both cases, including the implications of the recorded admission, the dual-state charging structure, and the behavioral indicators present in the family’s divergent public responses to the allegations.

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Is Nick Reiner plotting a calculated act of revenge from behind bars — or is his reported tell-all just another manifestation of the delusion that multiple sources say has consumed him inside Twin Towers Correctional Facility? That’s the question at the center of this episode, and the answer matters far more than the tabloid headline suggests.

According to insiders cited by Globe magazine, Nick allegedly wants to expose his parents’ secrets, name Hollywood names, and burn down the reputations of people who’ve reportedly cut ties with him since his arrest for the stabbing deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner. But sourced accounts from the TMZ documentary paint a different picture — one of a man described as almost childlike, unable to process why he’s in jail despite reportedly acknowledging what he did, and convinced that a conspiracy put him there.

The timing makes this story impossible to ignore. Jake Reiner — Nick’s older brother — recently published a Substack essay that is everything the reported tell-all allegedly isn’t. Where Nick reportedly wants to settle scores, Jake writes about parents who were his confidants and heroes. Where Nick allegedly wants to cause embarrassment, Jake describes being robbed of milestones — weddings, grandchildren, a career his parents won’t see. Where Nick reportedly rages at abandonment, Jake asks for love and compassion.

Tony Brueski examines the psychological and legal dimensions of what’s unfolding. With a preliminary hearing approaching, death penalty deliberations still ongoing, and an insanity defense reportedly taking shape, Nick’s alleged desire to publish a tell-all raises questions about his competency, his mental state, and whether the pattern of manipulation that sources have described throughout his life is still running — even from a jail cell. For families who’ve loved someone dangerous, this episode cuts close.

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The Duggar family curriculum didn’t just fail at academics. It replaced real science with superstition and called it God’s design. IBLP told families that Cabbage Patch dolls were spiritually dangerous, that any music with a backbeat was more addictive than crack, and that mental illness was a spiritual failure — not a medical condition. The organization’s medical arm operated without a licensed doctor and distributed health guidance that included suggestions violating patient privacy laws. Adopted children were taught they carried inherited sin. We break down the specific health and science claims inside the Wisdom Booklets and the real harm they caused.

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