Profiling Evil

Opening statements are done and the federal trial of former Stoughton police officer Matthew Farwell is underway. He’s charged with strangling 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore and staging her death as a suicide. Let’s walk through the opening statements and see the prosecution's case that Farwell groomed Birchmore from the time she was 15. Then he killed her to protect his career and his public life....

Closing arguments began today in the trial of David Prevatte, charged in the 2017 death of his five-year-old niece Paitin Fields. Let’s explore the prosecution and defense closing statements. Why does the prosecution put on gloves to show evidence and the defense doesn’t? Is there a silent statement being made. In this trial, I see two paths to first-degree murder the state laid out, how they defe...

Nine years after five-year-old Paitin Fields was found dead in 2017, her uncle David Prevatte is standing trial in North Carolina, charged with her murder. In this episode, we’ll walk through the pivotal moment when both sides rested their cases: the judge's ruling that dismissed the statutory rape charge but kept first-degree murder and statutory sexual offense alive, Prevatte's decision not to t...

Season 6 of American Nightmares is coming, and this time the story moves to Phoenix, Arizona, for a case known as The Canal Murders. In this special bridge episode between Season 5 and Season 6, Dan Zampillo sits down with retired investigator and criminal behavior expert Mike King, along with documentary filmmaker and journalist Brian Peter Falk, to talk about where American Nightmares has been a...

14 years after a 19-year-old college sophomore named Faith Hedgepeth was found beaten to death in her apartment, the trial of Miguel Salguero-Olivares is finally underway. A jury settled in for the opening statements by the prosecution and defense in a case that baffled investigators for more than a decade. The state claims that Olivares left DNA everywhere on the victim, in the victim and through...

An Ohio judge just sentenced Caleb Flynn to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the aggravated murder of his wife Ashley, the mother of his children. The court stacked consecutive time on top of that sentence, seven years on the firearm specifications and nine years on the evidence-tampering counts, all served before the life term even begins. That means Flynn will have 16 years t...

A five-year-old girl who had been sick over the weekend was put to sleep on a couch next to her seven-year-old sister. A few hours later, that sister awoke her grandparents, telling them that #PaitinFields didn’t look right. Three dogs were inside the home and uncle #DavidPrevatte was sleeping in the bedroom closest to the girls. In courtroom testimony, Paitin’s grandparents, Lisa and Dale gave ju...

Caleb Flynn just stood before an Ohio judge to be sentenced for the murder of his wife Ashley, and for the first time in eight months, he opened his mouth. What came out was ten minutes of thank-you’s, tearful tributes to his own family, and sweeping declarations of faith, ending with a flat denial: "I did not kill my wife." Fynn’s statement avoids the brutal facts of the case: two bullets in the...

Five-year-old #PaitinFields was carried into a North Carolina emergency room in November 2017 with injuries that doctors immediately recognized as suspicious. Medical examinations revealed evidence of sexual trauma and when the child died three days later, the medical examiner announced she was murdered by strangulation. Her uncle, #DavidWesleyPrevatte, #DavidPrevatte was inside the home that nigh...

Caleb Flynn was back in court just two days after a jury convicted him of murdering his wife, Ashley Flynn. But this wasn't sentencing. The Judge brought Flynn in to advise him about Ohio's Violent Offender Database, even though he faces the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison without parole. If you’re like many of my viewers who have reached out to me today, you’re wondering, w...

Five-year-old #PaitinFields was carried into a North Carolina emergency room in November 2017 with injuries that doctors immediately recognized as suspicious. Medical examinations revealed evidence of sexual trauma and when the child died three days later, the medical examiner announced she was murdered by strangulation. Her uncle, #DavidWesleyPrevatte, #DavidPrevatte was inside the home that nigh...

After seven days of testimony and 40 witnesses for the prosecution, the state has rested its case against former American Idol contestant #CalebFlynn, who is accused of murdering his wife, #AshleyFlynn, and staging their home to make it appear that an intruder was responsible. Then came the surprise. The defense rested without calling a single witness. Let’s break down the final day of testimony,...

The closing arguments in the Caleb Flynn murder trial are done, and the courtroom has gone quiet. The defense leaned hard into doubt, but after weeks of testimony, from the crime scene investigator who said a forced entry never happened to the digital evidence that painted a different story, it’s hard to imagine the jury needing much time to reach a decision. Flynn’s own words, his songs, and his...

As evidence continues to come forth in the #CalebFlynn murder trial, the state is presenting one bombshell after another as they try to convince this jury that Caleb murdered his wife, #AshleyFlynn. This particular day of testimony was very interesting to me, and I wanted to dig into a little more deeply because I’ve sat across from people in the hours after a violent death. It’s one of the hardes...

Caleb Flynn’s first police interview reveals subtle but telling inconsistencies that investigators often look for in the hours after a homicide. In this episode, I break down three moments that raise serious questions about Flynn’s behavior and mindset, including his selective coughing, his early identification of “alternative suspects,” and his decision to close the garage door while his wife lay...

This episode explores the disappearance of Christopher S. Rampersaud, a young man on the autism spectrum who vanished from his Queens, New York home in early October 2023. Christopher lived with his mother, an adult stepbrother, and a stepsister. His family didn’t report him missing, only his friends did so after Christopher reported having a fight with his mother. There has been no indication of...

In this episode of Profiling Evil, we’ll break down the bizarre closing argument delivered by Dr. Tomasz Kosowski, the Ivy League educated plastic surgeon accused of murdering attorney Steven Cozzi inside the Blanchard Law Firm in Largo, Florida. Kosowski represented himself and delivered a sprawling, often contradictory closing argument that had no legal impact on the judge’s final decision. Clos...

The #RichardAllen appeal hearing was one of the most intense court sessions I’ve watched for some time. It should take us too far from keeping #AbbyWilliams #LibbyGerman #Delphi in the forefront, but it is the present news. At times, it sounded like the judges already made up their minds as they pressed the prosecution and defense over Allen’s confessions and whether they were voluntary? Was the j...

In this episode, we examine the prosecution and defense opening statements in the murder trial of #CalebFlynn the one-time #AmericanIdol contestant and pastor who is accused of murdering his wife #AshleyFlynn in their home. Prosecutors argue that Flynn’s own words, his digital footprint, and the physical evidence inside the residence reveal a premeditated killing staged to look like an intruder at...

In this episode, Profiling Evil sits down with former offender monitoring program manager #DebiReynolds to examine the shocking reality that #BarryMorphew was allowed twelve hours a day of movement while supposedly on house arrest awaiting trial for the murder of his wife, #SuzanneMorphew. Debi explains how house arrest and GPS monitoring are supposed to work, what strict supervision looks like fo...

In this episode of Profiling Evil, we’ll walk through the prosecution’s case against Dr. Tomasz “Tom” Kosowski in the disappearance and alleged murder of attorney Steven Cozzi inside the Blanchard Law Firm in Largo, Florida. The prosecution says a civil lawsuit that began in 2019 gradually became more personal before escalating into surveillance, stalking, and ultimately a planned murderous attack...

This Profiling Evil episode takes a hard, fair look at the #LindsayClancy mistrial and the way the lone holdout juror has become the focus of public anger, media scrutiny, and legal commentary, while three murdered children, Cora, Dawson, and Callan, risk fading into the background. We’ll walk through what happened in that jury room, how fellow jurors and attorneys talked about the holdout afterwa...

In this episode, Profiling Evil sits down with Texas attorney Michelle Morris to break down the legal ambiguity surrounding #BarryMorphew from residency questions and plate transfers to vehicle registration, business filings, and the behavioral patterns that have followed him for years. Michelle brings her fraud‑investigation background to the table and explains how Morphew’s choices fit, or don’t...

On this solemn anniversary, I’m revisiting a powerful conversation with two of my closest friends — Lt. Tom Joyce of the NYPD and Capt. Steve Pollokov of the FDNY — both of whom were on the ground in New York City on September 11th, 2001. Their firsthand accounts capture the chaos, courage, heartbreak, and humanity of that day. Together, we honor the 2,977 lives lost and recommit to the promise we...

The #BarryMorphew hearing in Alamosa, Colorado, was a turning point in this case as Judge Amanda Hopkins examined the GPS data, jail calls, and bond history, ultimately blasting Morphew for what she called “no respect for any order of this court.” She revoked his $3 million surety bond and replaced it with a $10 million cash only bond, locked him down on 24/7 house arrest if he ever posts it, and...