This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruskey. Here now, Tony Bruske. If you wanted a masterclass

on how to lose public trust, prosecuted dad for saving his daughter, and then try to keep the

whole thing under wraps. That's exactly what went down in Lono County, Arkansas, where prosecutors

weren't just doubling down on charging Aaron Spencer

with second-degree murder, they tried to gag the whole world from even talking about it.

And they almost got away with it. We're talking about a man who shot the predator, accused of

repeatedly essaying his daughter, a man acting under what many could call pure instinct and what Arkansas law

just might call justifiable force. In fact, it actually does if it's interpreted correctly.

But you have a DA in Lono County that, I don't know, is, I don't know. I don't know is I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know how

anyone could look at this case and think let's go after dad unless maybe that person has some

of the same propensities as the predator that's dead I don don't know. I have no idea. I'm not saying,

but I'm saying maybe we should look, because it feels like somebody's being protected here.

Why would you not go after a child, predator? Why would you let this man out on $5,000 bond?

And then why would you prosecute the dad who saved his daughter's life after said

predator that you let out, came back, and kidnapped her?

I don't know.

I don't know what kind of person does that and goes after the dad other than another predator.

Maybe not predator in the sense of an essay type predator, but a predator.

A predator out hunting a dad for doing the right thing.

Rather than let this case play out in the light, the state tried to keep it in the dark,

sweeping, copy, paste, gag ordering.

Because that's what they do. It was the gag order, as you'll find out, it was pretty

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