Arkansas Let a Predator Walk — and Punished the Dad Who Stopped Him: The Aaron Spencer Case
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In October 2024, a decorated Army veteran from Lonoke County, Arkansas, woke to find his 14-year-old daughter gone. Her bed was staged with a decoy hoodie, her dog was barking, and every instinct in his body told him the unthinkable had happened. The man charged with stalking and assaulting her — 67-year-old Michael Fosler — had taken her again.
Here’s the part that will make your blood boil: Fosler was already facing 43 felony charges for child exploitation, grooming, and sexual indecency with a minor — this same child. He’d been arrested, charged, and then released by Judge Barbara Elmore on just $5,000 bond. The prosecutor of record, John Huggins, agreed to the terms. There was no ankle monitor, no high-risk supervision, no meaningful enforcement of the “no contact” order.
That decision almost cost a girl her life.
When Aaron Spencer found Fosler’s truck on a dark Arkansas highway, his daughter was inside. He confronted the man, who refused to comply, grabbed for her again, and lunged. Aaron fired — ending the threat and saving his child.
The next day, he was charged with second-degree murder and a firearm enhancement, facing up to 45 years. The same officials who freed the predator are now trying to bury the father.
This episode exposes a catastrophic failure of the justice system — a prosecutor and judge whose decisions directly led to a child’s kidnapping, a gag order that silenced the truth for months, and a father who did what they refused to do: protect his family.
Now, Spencer is fighting back — not just in court, but on the ballot. He’s running for sheriff of Lonoke County to fix the system that failed his daughter.
It’s not just a case. It’s a referendum on justice itself.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:02.9 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.5 | There are failures you can chalk up to human error, |
| 0:10.2 | and there are failures so avoidable, so brazen. |
| 0:14.9 | They feel like the state itself committed a crime. |
| 0:18.7 | That's what we're dealing with in Lowenow County, Arkansas. Not a clerical |
| 0:23.0 | mistake, a collapse. And I'm going to pose this question to you at the beginning of this, |
| 0:29.7 | because I want you to think about it as we talk about it. In no way, shape, or form I want to say, |
| 0:33.6 | am I accusing anyone of doing anything? Okay. But I'm just making an observation of life. |
| 0:40.5 | I have never met any or heard of. |
| 0:46.9 | Any one ever in life. |
| 0:52.6 | I don't know anyone |
| 0:57.8 | that protects a child predator |
| 1:02.9 | other than a child predator. |
| 1:05.2 | Do you? |
| 1:08.0 | Have you ever met one? |
| 1:09.9 | Does it exist? |
| 1:13.1 | Because we're talking in this case, but a lot of people seeming all too willing to protect a child predator, even in death. |
| 1:25.9 | Start the clock on October 8th, |
| 1:27.6 | middle of the night, a dog barks, |
| 1:30.1 | father wakes up, the bed where |
| 1:31.4 | 14-year-old should be sleeping is filled with a decoy. |
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