We Saw the Devil: Unfiltered Political Analysis

Internet sleuths, TikTok true crime, and Reddit "detectives" keep naming the wrong person, and innocent people pay for it. Robin goes scorched earth on the mob, from the Boston Marathon bombing to the Idaho murders, the Charlie Kirk shooting, and Nancy Guthrie. A 77-year-old Toronto retiree got named as Charlie Kirk's shooter. He's never been to Utah. A TikTok psychic used tarot cards to accuse an...

March 11, 2024. In a single day, Mica Miller found a deflation device in her tire, was followed to a gas station and then a car dealership, got calls from numbers she’d already blocked, told an officer she was afraid for her life, and had a tracking device pulled off her car. An officer warned the man she named. He said “ok.” That afternoon, Mica walked into court and filed for a restraining order...

Russell Brand is going to prison, Lindsay Clancy is going back to trial, and a former cop is finally a convicted killer. Then the full story of Sonia Exelby, before her trial and before the internet can get it wrong again. In the quick hits: Russell Brand, who spent years telling you the mainstream media was out to get him, gets ten and a half years for rape and sexual assault. Turns out it was a...

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...

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 EPISODE Election Fallout: Democrats took the House and the Senate, flipping Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina...

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 M...

***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-o...

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...

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 o...

"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 pr...

"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 bo...

Luminol on Monday. Human DNA on Tuesday, per police sources. An excavator in the backyard, a shed torn down, and dirt sifted three feet deep like a mass grave. Then on Thursday, the medical examiner pulled up to 417 West Chew Avenue because somebody found bones. Nobody knows yet whether they’re human. Philly PD isn’t confirming a damn thing. And Eugene Horsch’s lawyer went on CBS Philadelphia to c...

February 6, 2024. A pastor calls Horry County police and reads them his wife’s location in real time. He isn’t following her, he explains. He’s “watching her on the map.” Over the next ten weeks, Mica Miller contacted police at least fourteen times for help involving her husband, John-Paul Miller, pastor of Solid Rock Church in Myrtle Beach. Five of those contacts involved tracking devices. South...

"Basically, I'm a sociopath, always have been." R.C. Horsch said that into a public radio microphone in 2014. This week, law enforcement sources told CBS Philadelphia they consider him a suspected serial killer, and the FBI and Philadelphia police began taking his Olney house apart. This week in breaking news:  - What "suspected serial killer" means for a man who can never be charged - Peter Crimm...

February 1, 2021. A blizzard is closing in on Boston. According to federal prosecutors, a Stoughton police detective texts 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore and asks if he can come by for a second. At 9:40 p.m., her phone logs eight steps. It never moves again. Three days later she's found dead in her Canton apartment, eight to ten weeks pregnant. By May, Massachusetts had ruled it a suicide. Today, ju...

NOTE: For whatever reason, even after correctly stating her age multiple times, around 22 minutes in, Robin incorrectly refers to Jane Doe as 21 years old.  At 1:42 a.m. on October 20, 2024, according to a civil lawsuit, a Chi Phi brother at Cornell University told a Snapchat group of more than fifty fraternity members there was "free p*ssy upstairs." Upstairs was a twenty year old sophomore. Not...

At 1:42 a.m. on October 20, 2024, according to a civil lawsuit, a Chi Phi brother at Cornell University told a Snapchat group of more than fifty fraternity members there was "free p*ssy upstairs." Upstairs was a twenty year old sophomore. Not one person in that chat went to the police. Two years later, nobody has been charged. Then Jane Doe sued, the Tompkins County DA reopened the case, Governor...

On Wednesday, September 30, the State of Tennessee tried to execute Christa Pike. It couldn't. Pike was convicted of the 1995 torture and murder of Colleen Slemmer, a 19-year-old fellow student at the Knoxville Job Corps. After a morning stay from the Sixth Circuit and an evening reversal by the U.S. Supreme Court, she was given two rounds of pentobarbital at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution...

Lindsay Clancy was back in court for the first time since her murder trial ended in a mistrial, and it was chaos. Plus, Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee's death row, is scheduled to be executed at 10 a.m. CT on September 30, 2026, after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to step in. Yesterday, Lindsay Clancy appeared in Plymouth Superior Court. The former Duxbury, Massachusetts labor and del...

***Show note: Robin is still insanely sick with COVID and this episode is not closely edited.   On January 12, 1995, 18-year-old Christa Pike lured 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer to an abandoned steam plant on the University of Tennessee's agricultural campus and tortured her to death. She took a piece of Colleen's skull back to her dorm and showed it off at breakfast. She confessed. She has never de...

Robin has COVID, a 103 degree fever, and a voice held together with tape. The episode goes out anyway, because Olney won't stop breaking. It is 100% unedited, so what you're hearing is what you're getting. Sorry, folks.  THE OLNEY HOUSE, PART THREE: ACCESS New reporting from the Philadelphia Inquirer says the late pornographer Raymond "R.C." Horsch had access to a Kensington crematorium connected...

In June, a federal park ranger wrote down a license plate on Independence Mall. Three months later, Philadelphia is running the strangest death investigation in the city since Gary Heidnik, and it has no bodies in it. This is the second episode on the Olney house. Since I last covered it, the numbers have changed completely. Four missing women became seven. Two believed dead became five. Five perc...

Eleven jurors voted to acquit Lindsay Clancy. One didn't. Six days later his dismissed charge, his divorce, and his eviction were on national television. He has never spoken to a reporter. He has never been named. He showed up for jury duty and then did the one thing we tell every juror to do, which is refuse to move when you don't believe it. This week the entire country argued about whether he s...

This episode covers rape, drug-facilitated sexual assault, and the death of a woman. Nothing in it is graphic for the sake of being graphic. Resources are below. Late on June 25, 2026, in the small Upper Austrian town of Marchtrenk, a teenage girl finds her mother unresponsive and bleeding. Paramedics pronounce her dead at 12:44 a.m. Her husband tells police it was rough, consensual sex that went...

The jury foreperson has a name now. Roni Carlson. She and two other women from that panel sat down with NBC10 this week and told everybody what actually went on in there for seven days, and one detail has been rattling around my skull since. The holdout admitted he had reasonable doubt. Out loud. To the room. She was so relieved she started filling out the verdict forms, all three of them, signed...