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🔎 Daily True Crime Stories | Unsolved Mysteries | Criminal Investigations | Cold Cases True Crime Today is your go-to daily true crime podcast, bringing you the latest murder cases, ongoing trials, criminal psychology insights, and shocking unsolved mysteries. Whether it’s breaking crime news, high-profile trials, serial killers, missing persons, or cold cases, we cover it all with expert analysis, investigative storytelling, and real-time updates. 🎙️ Hosted by leading crime analysts, we uncover the psychology of killers, forensic breakthroughs, police investigations, and courtroom drama—giving you the full story behind the headlines. From notorious cases to little-known crimes that deserve attention, we break down what really...
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Former Pastor Says JP Miller's Congregation of 15 Is Exactly a Cult
JP Miller went from leading Solid Rock Church in Myrtle Beach to allegedly preaching to roughly fifteen people. On Homicide Happy Hour, former thirty-year pastor Timmy Gibson said those fifteen people are in a cult and don't know it. He confirmed that assessment with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott. Gibson recognized Miller's sermons immediately. He quotes Miller allegedly preaching that wives who fail to satisfy their husbands will find the devil sending twenty replacements. Miller stands charged federally — cyberstalking and making false statements. He has maintained his innocence. Mica Miller's death in April 2024 was ruled a suicide. Miller faces no charges in...
Published: Oct 23, 2026Duration: 13m 37s
Stoughton’s First Female Chief Exposed the Officers — Why Is SHE on Leave?
Stoughton’s first female police chief exposed the officers involved with Sandra Birchmore. She is now on administrative leave. Chief Donna McNamara allegedly opened a second investigation and says Town Manager Robin Calter told her to destroy the report. McNamara refused. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines what drives an institution to retaliate against the person who exposed its own misconduct. The second investigation reportedly uncovered information about another unnamed former employee — suggesting the problem inside the department may extend beyond the officers already identified. Someone inside the station allegedly warned Matthew Farwell that a phone call had come in about him...
Published: Oct 23, 2026Duration: 16m 35s
Alex Murdaugh's Judge Let His Lawyers Test THIS Before Trial
Alex Murdaugh was back in a South Carolina courtroom in a suit and tie on October 16, getting ready for his double murder retrial. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins me to go through what Judge Debra McCaslin decided.The defense can test unidentified DNA from Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails and phone, over the state's objection that it could use up the samples. The state has to turn over original crime-scene scan data. The defense doesn't get ballistics records from unrelated shootings.McCaslin also put on the record that Murdaugh failed a polygraph about hiding financial records, after...
Published: Oct 23, 2026Duration: 16m 30s
What Brought Barry Morphew’s Murder Case Back After Prosecutors Dropped It
Barry Morphew was charged with murder in 2021. The case was dismissed in 2022 — nine days before trial. In 2023, investigators found Suzanne Morphew’s remains. In 2025, a grand jury indicted him again. In 2026, his bond was set at ten million dollars. This three-part documentary covers every stage. Part one examines the marriage Suzanne described to her sister, her closest friend, and a man named Jeff Libler — and the recording pen she hid in her own home. Part two traces the digital trail investigators pulled from Barry’s phone and truck, the five disposal stops on his Mother’s Day work trip, and the pr...
Published: Oct 22, 2026Duration: 37m 3s
Sandra Birchmore's Own Cop Attacked HER Credibility After She Was Dead?!
Robert Devine led Sandra Birchmore’s youth program. After she was dead, he attacked her credibility at his own disciplinary hearing — calling a woman who could no longer speak for herself a liar. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines what that choice reveals about Devine and the broader dynamic among the Stoughton officers allegedly involved with Sandra. Devine didn’t just run the program — he allegedly mentored both Farwell brothers as teenagers, years before those officers targeted Sandra through the same program. William Farwell, Matthew’s twin, allegedly engaged with Sandra while knowing she was pregnant with his brother’s baby. Scott, autho...
Published: Oct 22, 2026Duration: 9m 32s
Farwell Texted a Fellow Detective WHAT After His Wife Gave Birth?!
Six people took the witness stand in the Matthew Farwell murder trial, and his own desk mate testified that in eight years, Farwell had never once reached out off duty to ask what was going on. On February 2, he did, from his wife's hospital room, hours after prosecutors allege he entered Sandra Birchmore's building wearing a mask.Sandra Birchmore's friend Rebecca Chandler read four months of their texts to the jury. They covered the night Sandra wrote that Farwell looked around her closet, the morning she wrote that he asked for a key, and the baby clothes...
Published: Oct 22, 2026Duration: 25m 45s
This Officer Hated Wearing Masks — Until the Night Sandra Birchmore Died
Matthew Farwell never wore a mask — until the night prosecutors allege Sandra Birchmore was killed. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of Nightbird, examines what that single behavioral change reveals about Farwell’s mind and the moment his carefully maintained double life allegedly shattered. Farwell met Sandra in his patrol car during work hours and logged the time on the clock. His wife was pregnant. Sandra was pregnant. When Sandra’s friend called the Stoughton police station asking about Farwell, the wall between his two lives cracked. Prosecutors allege Farwell went to Sandra’s apartment that night, then drove to the hospital...
Published: Oct 22, 2026Duration: 18m 37s
What Sandra Birchmore Typed to Her Cop's Wife — and Why She Never Sent It
Sandra Birchmore typed a message to Matthew Farwell’s wife telling her everything — and never sent it. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott says that moment captures exactly how completely Sandra’s understanding of her own situation had been reshaped over years of alleged targeting by Stoughton police officers. Sandra met Farwell through the department’s youth program when she was thirteen. She had no father and her mother was dead. By adulthood, she believed she was in love with the man who allegedly exploited her vulnerability from the start. Her closest friend recognized the danger instantly. Sandra could not. Scott, author of Night...
Published: Oct 22, 2026Duration: 17m 57s
Four Officers, One Dead Woman, and a Case Closed Without a Single Warrant
Sandra Birchmore was ruled a suicide by a system with four officers' fingerprints on it. Bob Motta ranks what each one did. The lead trooper, Matthew Dunne, who chose a parking lot over an interview room, a conversation over a recording, and now admits Farwell lied to him. The forensic examiner, Nicholas Guarino, who read mfarwell1 off Sandra's phone and still sent Farwell's phone home clean. The supervisor, Sgt. John Fanning, who prosecutors say told Farwell's twin the case was dead before it started and who went on to run the Karen Read investigation. And the twin himself, Officer...
Published: Oct 22, 2026Duration: 1h 2m 10s
Former Pastor on Why Caleb Flynn Will Never Confess to Killing Ashley
Timmy Gibson knows the evangelical playbook from the inside. He pastored for thirty years and walked away. On Homicide Happy Hour, he explained why Caleb Flynn will never admit to what he did. Flynn was convicted on all nine counts in the murder of his wife Ashley in Tipp City, Ohio, and sentenced to life without parole. Gibson says the same mental gymnastics that let Flynn justify the affair now justify the silence. The system teaches that your primary debt is to God, not to the person you harmed. When Flynn said "God is my judge," he meant it...
Published: Oct 22, 2026Duration: 18m 6s
William Farwell Lied to the Troopers Investigating Sandra Birchmore's Death
The federal indictment against Matthew Farwell alleges that after a friend of Sandra Birchmore's called Stoughton police on January 20th, 2021, to report their relationship, a department employee told Farwell about it. Prosecutors say that's when he started planning. Sandra died twelve days later. The call itself lasted three minutes with two holds, and the recording was automatically deleted. Matthew's twin brother William was a Stoughton officer who admitted his own relationship with Sandra, gave state police false information, and was permanently decertified in September 2024. The department's internal investigation found all three officers involved with Sandra misled the troopers who...
Published: Oct 22, 2026Duration: 14m 45s
Barry Morphew’s Murder Case Was Rebuilt After WHAT Was Found in Suzanne’s Bones
Barry Morphew’s murder case was dismissed in April 2022 — the prosecution’s tranquilizer theory had no body, no confirmed drugs, and no cause of death. Then investigators found Suzanne. CBI agents recovered remains in Saguache County on September 22, 2023. Dental records and DNA confirmed the identification. Bone testing found butorphanol, azaperone, and medetomidine — three compounds that form BAM, a wildlife immobilizer for sedating large animals. The medical examiner ruled homicide. The original case had theorized this exact drug based on a dart gun and a needle cap at the Morphew property. Now the chemicals were confirmed in Suzanne’s remains. Barry’s ac...
Published: Oct 21, 2026Duration: 14m 43s
Sandra Birchmore's Investigation and Karen Read's Had the Same Supervisor
The prosecution's opening in the Matthew Farwell trial put one sentence in front of the jury that changes how you read everything else. Sgt. John Fanning, the supervisor over Sandra Birchmore's death investigation, allegedly told Farwell's twin brother on February 11th, 2021, that the death was a suicide, nothing was criminal, and they needed the case like they needed a bullet in the head. William Farwell told the FBI that's what he heard. Fanning's unit closed the file without a search warrant. Trooper Dunne says Fanning chose the unrecorded parking lot interview. Fanning later supervised the Norfolk CPAC unit through...
Published: Oct 21, 2026Duration: 18m 4s
Sandra Birchmore Asked Her Friend to Do WHAT on Valentine’s Day?!
Mackenzie Palma met Sandra Birchmore in second grade. Her mother babysat Sandra. The day after Sandra’s pregnancy test came back positive, she messaged Palma for a custom baby-announcement sign and onesies. The onesie shown in court said “made with love.”On January 29 Sandra asked if Palma was working February 13. “Will you take pictures with me after?” A Valentine’s Day baby announcement. Three days later she was found dead, and the defense says she chose to be there.Sandra’s OB-GYN testified she scored zero on suicidal ideation. Her lawyer testified Sandra was optimistic about custody...
Published: Oct 21, 2026Duration: 31m 27s
Sandra Birchmore's Evidence Was Handed Back to the Man Accused of Killing Her
Matthew Farwell's phone was in a state police forensics lab eight days after Sandra Birchmore died. Examiner Nicholas Guarino testified he searched it for messages with Sandra, found none, and sent it back to Farwell. The FBI later recovered tens of thousands. Prosecutors say Farwell deleted them after his first interview with state police, before Guarino ever looked. The same examiner had already found Sandra's password, mfarwell1, and used it to open her laptop. He later deleted one of his own extractions, couldn't read her Apple Watch, and couldn't produce a report on a failed hard drive. Bob Motta...
Published: Oct 21, 2026Duration: 12m 50s
Sandra Birchmore's Lead Trooper Knew Farwell Lied and Buried It Anyway
Trooper Matthew Dunne told a federal jury that Matthew Farwell lied to him about Sandra Birchmore, and that he ruled her death a suicide anyway. The lies were about when the relationship began and how many times they'd been together. The interview where Farwell told them happened in a school parking lot with no recording and no notes, a choice Dunne says was meant to keep Farwell from calling a lawyer. Dunne didn't attend the autopsy, didn't interview neighbors, and didn't question Farwell's coworkers. Bob Motta breaks down the investigation and asks the question the jury has to answer...
Published: Oct 21, 2026Duration: 17m 29s
Alex Murdaugh and Matthew Farwell — DNA They Never Tested and Texts She Was Told to Delete
Two cases in one episode. Murdaugh's defense team put untested DNA before a judge — unknown male profiles under both of Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails and on the phone recovered from the roadside, none belonging to Alex. A federal prisoner's statement naming $15,000-a-week pill sales had been buried in state files since before the first trial. The defense attorney told the judge Murdaugh passed a polygraph; the judge corrected him — failure, on financial crimes, never the murders. In Matthew Farwell's federal trial, a prosecutor and an FBI agent alternated reading his text messages with Sandra Birchmore. He said he figured she woul...
Published: Oct 21, 2026Duration: 1h 5m 6s
Former Pastor Knew Ted Haggard and Recognized Caleb Flynn Immediately
Timmy Gibson went to breakfast with Ted Haggard multiple times. He was a fellow pastor in the evangelical world, close enough to see the charm and sense something underneath it. Years later, when the Caleb Flynn case broke, Gibson saw the same architecture. Flynn led worship in Tipp City, Ohio, while maintaining a relationship with a fellow team member and texting her over a hundred thousand times. He was convicted on all nine counts in Ashley Flynn's murder and sentenced to life without parole. Gibson pastored for three decades before leaving the faith entirely. On Homicide Happy Hour, he...
Published: Oct 21, 2026Duration: 23m 33s
Matthew Farwell's Work Phone Searches After Sandra Birchmore Died Tell You Everything
After handing his personal phone to State Police, Matthew Farwell turned to his department-issued device. Eight days after Sandra Birchmore's death, he searched it for whether consent can be revoked in Massachusetts and whether forensic tools can pull deleted iMessages. The FBI's forensics examiner walked the jury through February 1st: Sandra's phone logged six steps at 9:10 PM, went dark at 9:13, recorded eight final steps at 9:40, and never registered movement again. Farwell appeared on camera in her building. Sandra had been planning ahead — a baby names list saved two days earlier ended with the name Matthew. On cross-examination, the defense hi...
Published: Oct 21, 2026Duration: 17m 27s
What Barry Morphew’s Phone and Truck Exposed the Night Suzanne Vanished
Barry Morphew said he left Suzanne sleeping in their Chaffee County home and drove to a construction job before dawn on Mother’s Day 2020. By that evening, Suzanne’s daughters couldn’t reach her. Her bicycle was found thrown down a slope near the property. Her phone had gone dark at 4:23 a.m. Between 3:25 and 3:51 a.m., sensors in Barry’s truck recorded multiple events while he told investigators he was asleep. His phone powered off and back on through the night. At 6:10 a.m., he texted Suzanne: “Happy Mother’s Day. I love you.” He spent less than thirty minutes...
Published: Oct 20, 2026Duration: 12m 37s