6-Year-Old School Shooting Trial: Abby Zwerner v. Ebony Parker — Day 1 Part 1
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
Each day’s proceedings bring new testimony, evidence, and revelations about what happened inside Richneck Elementary School on January 6, 2023 — and the administrative failures that followed.
You’ll hear unfiltered courtroom audio, direct from the trial, as attorneys for Abby Zwerner seek $40 million in damages against former assistant principal Ebony Parker, accused of negligence so severe it nearly cost a teacher her life.
Hidden Killers brings you the voices, the arguments, and the raw sound of justice in progress — as a jury decides whether silence and inaction inside a public school can rise to the level of legal accountability.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to continuing coverage of the Abbey's Werner Civil Trial from the Hidden Killers podcast and true crime today. |
| 0:08.5 | All right, ladies and gentlemen in the courtroom, if you are a member of the media and were permitted a recording or cell phone in, |
| 0:15.7 | please make sure that is on silent during the course of any time that court is in session. I will address the |
| 0:23.6 | jurors just real briefly about the media presence and courtroom. I didn't do that |
| 0:28.9 | yesterday to the entire group but I will do that to the group who is sitting today |
| 0:32.8 | and then we will allow them notepads after their opening statement. All right |
| 0:37.4 | very well bring in the jury. And then we will allow them notepads after their opening statement. All right. |
| 0:38.3 | Very well. |
| 0:39.3 | Bring in the jury. |
| 0:40.3 | Your Honor, just administratively, once the jury |
| 0:45.3 | see it and I intended to go ahead and pivot that television for their view. |
| 0:49.3 | Okay. |
| 0:50.3 | Just don't hit my walk there. |
| 0:52.3 | We already spoke about it. just don't hit my walkthrough we are just spoken we are discussing I guess if he doesn't do it. |
| 1:32.3 | Please rise for the jury. All right. |
| 1:45.0 | All right, thank you. Do you request a poll miss |
| 2:04.0 | I do not do you request to pull miss Douglas all right you may be seated good |
| 2:10.8 | morning ladies and gentlemen all right we are going to proceed with opening |
| 2:16.1 | statements this morning there were two things I did want to advise you of. |
| 2:20.7 | Obviously, we have a media presence here today and in the courtroom. There are cameras in the courtroom, |
| 2:26.6 | but I want you to know that under state law, the media is prohibited from covering the jury or any jurors |
| 2:33.0 | at any stage of these proceedings, including the jury selection |
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