Aaron Spencer and the Shot Heard Across Arkansas: Justice or Justified?
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
What happens when a father takes justice into his own hands—and the legal system turns its sights on him?
This full-length episode combines both parts of our deep dive into the high-stakes, emotionally explosive case of Aaron Spencer, the Arkansas veteran and father charged with second-degree murder after fatally shooting Michael Fosler—the man accused of sexually abusing Spencer’s teenage daughter.
Despite facing 43 felony counts tied to child sex abuse, Fosler was out on bond. Then, one October night in 2024, Spencer finds his daughter missing—and then finds her in Fosler’s truck. What happens next is fast, violent, and now the subject of national debate: Spencer chases the truck down, runs it off the road, confronts Fosler at gunpoint, and fires. Multiple times. Ending the threat—but launching a legal firestorm.
In this episode, I’m joined by Eric Faddis, former prosecutor and criminal defense attorney, for a full-spectrum breakdown. In Part 1, we examine the prosecution’s strategy: why the State moved forward with charges despite overwhelming public support, how the law defines second-degree murder in Arkansas, and what role the Arkansas Supreme Court played after a sweeping gag order tried to shut the case down.
In Part 2, we shift to the defense—how Spencer’s legal team will argue self-defense, defense of others, and heat-of-passion. We also tackle the biggest wildcard: the jury. Will they see a man trying to protect his child… or one who went too far?
This is more than a trial—it’s a stress test for our justice system. A case where morality, legality, and public outrage are all colliding in real time.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.5 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.3 | Prepare to be angry. |
| 0:08.5 | If your kid's in danger and the system shrugs, |
| 0:13.9 | how far are you allowed to go before it's called murder? |
| 0:18.2 | I think most of us who are parents. |
| 0:25.2 | No, there is no limit to that. Someone harms your kids, someone takes your kids, someone's actively in the process of taking your child in their |
| 0:31.7 | vehicle speeding away. Your goddamn right, a bullet to the head of that person is not out of the question. |
| 0:38.5 | It's encouraged, actually. |
| 0:41.7 | Sought after, hoped for. |
| 0:43.6 | Why? Because that would stop that person from abducting your child. |
| 0:46.9 | That person certainly deserves it at that point in time. |
| 0:50.3 | Well, in the fine state of Arkansas, they'd like to challenge that. |
| 0:56.3 | It's a question at the center of this case because Aaron Spencer didn't just react. He responded. |
| 1:02.3 | He didn't just respond. He finished the job that the system that law enforcement had failed to do because they already had this guy in custody. |
| 1:13.3 | He's been charged with 43 counts of sexual abuse against this man's child, the dad who pulled the trigger, and dad had to |
| 1:22.9 | actively cut off a moving vehicle and get his child out of that moving vehicle from said |
| 1:29.4 | predator. |
| 1:30.7 | Said predator ends up shot because of it. |
| 1:33.5 | And now you're going to charge dad, Arkansas. |
| 1:37.1 | I live in Arkansas, by the way. |
| 1:41.4 | Now, if you miss the first part of this in our conversation with Eric, your 30-second catch-up on the case. |
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