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Today we are stepping into one of the most extraordinary and troubling cases, I think, that we've ever covered,

and we still don't know most of the details.

That's what makes it so damn elusive. It's the case that isn't just about one act of violence,

but about what confessor inside a justice system when power goes unchecked. In September of

2024, inside the Lecter County Courthouse in Whitesburg, Kentucky. Sheriff

Sean Mickey Steins walked into the chambers of District Judge Kevin Mullins. It opened fire.

We all saw it on video. Judge Mullins died there in his own office. The entire shooting captured on courthouse surveillance.

Stein surrendered immediately. He's now indicted for the murder

of a public official and awaiting trial, but that single moment didn't happen in a vacuum.

Three days earlier, Steins had been deposed in a federal civil rights lawsuit, Atkins v. Fields.

That alleges a pattern of sexual exploitation and coercion tied to the very courthouse where the shooting occurred. In that suit,

a former home incarceration officer has already pled guilty for SA, sodomy, and tampering.

Plaintiffs allege some of the misconduct took place inside

Judge Mullen's chambers. Steins was named in that lawsuit for alleged failures of supervision,

though not accused of any sort of S.A. wrongdoing himself. After the shooting body cam footage shows Stein's distraught

and paranoid pleading not to be harmed, his lawyers have filed notice of an insanity or extreme

emotional disturbance defense. Prosecutors are opposing bond and have not ruled out seeking the

death penalty. At the time, women are now stepping forward publicly. Some on the record

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