Arkansas Wants To Convict A Father Who Saved His Daughter From A Predator! | Aaron Spencer Case NEW Developments!
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
The state is calling that premeditation. They want a jury to believe a father processing the worst news of his life was actually announcing a plan. But here's what that argument ignores — Spencer was watching the system fail his daughter in real time. He was asking deputies what kind of sentence Fosler would realistically get. He was learning that the man who violated his child would likely walk free. That's not a confession. That's a father realizing no one was coming to help.
Three months later, Fosler was out on bond with 43 felony charges. He had a no-contact order. And in the middle of the night, Spencer's daughter ended up in Fosler's truck heading toward Fosler's house. This wasn't premeditation — this was a kidnapping in progress. Spencer responded the way any father would when the system that was supposed to protect his child let a predator walk free and come back for her.
This is what's called a 404(b) motion — a fight over whether prior statements can be used as evidence of intent. If the judge lets this footage in, prosecutors get to frame a grief-stricken father as a calculated aggressor. The defense has to convince the court that what the jury would actually be hearing is a man in crisis, not a man making threats.
The ruling could define the entire trial.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:09.4 | The Aaron Spencer case, this is one that's enraging, especially if you're a parent, |
| 0:15.3 | especially if you're a parent of a young child. |
| 0:19.0 | And, uh, you mean more specifically if you have, uh,, if you have little girls, it really is one of those things you look |
| 0:26.0 | and go, my God, I don't know how anyone wouldn't act the way that Aaron Spencer did to go rescue. |
| 0:32.7 | His daughter from Michael Fossler, the man that he ended up killing after he kidnapped Aaron Spencer's |
| 0:40.2 | daughter from their home. He stood in front of the Aleno County deputies months before the murder. |
| 0:48.1 | Furious, broken, and recorded on body cam. His 13-year-old daughter had just disclosed that she had been assayed by a 67-year-old man. |
| 0:58.4 | And on that footage, Spencer says something the prosecution now wants to use against him. |
| 1:04.8 | Sometimes you've got to handle things yourself. The state is arguing that's premeditation, |
| 1:09.9 | that Spencer was already planning what he'd |
| 1:12.4 | eventually do. The defense says it's a father in shock, venting grief and disbelief, not announcing |
| 1:19.2 | intent. This is the 404B fight, and it could define the entire trial. Bob Mata, defense attorney, |
| 1:27.1 | host of the podcast Defense Diaries with us to help break all of this down. |
| 1:31.7 | Bob, let's start with this. |
| 1:33.0 | Walk us through the Rule 404B. |
| 1:35.5 | What does the prosecution have to prove to get this body cam footage in front of a jury? |
| 1:42.4 | And what's the legal standard that they're up against here in a case like this. |
| 1:46.0 | So 404B is prior bad acts. All right. So when you hear that in any case, not just this case, |
| 1:54.1 | that's when the state is trying to introduce prior bad acts that may have no relation to the case. |
| 2:01.0 | Sometimes it does. |
| 2:02.0 | Sometimes it doesn't. |
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