Aaron Spencer: Vigilante or Protector? Bob Motta Breaks It Down
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In this Hidden Killers interview, Tony Brueski and Bob Motta unpack the State’s new filing in the Aaron Spencer case — a motion to use body-cam footage recorded three months before the shooting. In it, Spencer, furious after learning his daughter had been assaulted, tells deputies he doesn’t trust the system and says, “Sometimes you’ve got to handle things yourself.”
The prosecution wants those words played for jurors as proof of premeditation. The defense argues they show grief and disbelief, not intent. Bob Motta explains how prosecutors use Rule 404(b) to sway perception, how the defense fights back, and why this single piece of evidence could define the case.
This is the battle over emotion versus law, instinct versus restraint — and what happens when the justice system fails before a father ever pulls the trigger.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:07.9 | I want to talk about another story today. |
| 0:11.1 | Aaron Spencer, this is the dad in Arkansas that rescued his daughter after he was, |
| 0:19.2 | she was kidnapped by a man who already had, what was it, 47 |
| 0:23.6 | counts against him for assaying his daughter. And he was released on a low bond and then decided |
| 0:32.5 | to show up late at night, kidnap the daughter and flee. Well, dad was like, where the hell did she go? |
| 0:41.9 | They called 911. He gets in his truck, starts driving, comes across him, and gets him to pull off to |
| 0:48.7 | the side of the road, screams, let my daughter out of the vehicle. He doesn't. The perpetrator proceeds to get out of the |
| 0:55.6 | vehicle, approach dad, Aaron Spencer, to which he's met with gunfire, which I think almost any dad |
| 1:03.3 | would meet someone with gunfire if you steal their child and had already been charged with |
| 1:09.3 | violating them 47 times, |
| 1:11.4 | and you're now approaching him in the middle of the night |
| 1:13.6 | after the daughter is kidnapped in the perpetrator's vehicle. |
| 1:17.2 | Well, he's being charged with second-degree murder |
| 1:19.2 | because America, that's what's going on right now, |
| 1:23.3 | but the Lono County prosecutor is not backing down. |
| 1:26.1 | They're not saying, you know, that was a bad idea. |
| 1:28.0 | Maybe we shouldn't charge him with second-degree murder. |
| 1:30.6 | They've now filed new motions asking the court to play body cam video from July 8th of |
| 1:36.3 | 2024, three months before the actual shooting where Aaron Spencer is furious after learning |
| 1:42.0 | what happened to his daughter, as any sane parent would be. |
| 1:45.4 | I'd be concerned if the parent didn't give a shit. |
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