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🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In this episode of True Crime News The Sidebar Podcast: Matt Tympanick joins host Joshua Ritter to break down the biggest cases making headlines across the nation. They discuss police naming D4vd an official suspect in the death of missing teen Celeste Rivas Hernandez, “Slender Man” assailant Morgan Geyser’s arrest after she allegedly cut off her ankle monitor and fled, and authorities ruling Anna Kepner’s cruise ship death a homicide as investigators eye the victim’s teenage stepbrother as a suspect. Tweet your questions for future episodes to Joshua Ritter using the hashtag #TCNSidebar To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the sidebar presented by true crime news, taking you inside the
0:14.9	courtrooms of high profile and notorious cases from across the country.
0:18.4	I'm your host, Joshua Ritter.
0:20.0	I'm a criminal defense lawyer based in
0:21.4	Los Angeles and previously in L.A. County prosecutor for over a decade. You can find me on all
0:26.8	social platforms at Joshua Ritter ESQ or at Joshua Ritter.com. We are recording this on Tuesday,
0:33.5	November 25th, 2025. In this week's episode, the young woman at the center of the infamous
0:39.8	slender man stabbings escapes from her group home. Plus, a mysterious cruise ship death
0:45.9	becomes a homicide as investigators focus on the victim's stepbrother. But first, a famous singer
0:51.8	officially named as a suspect in a missing teen's death.
0:56.3	Today, we're joined by Matt Timpanic, an attorney and legal analysts you can catch on YouTube and many other media outlets.
1:03.3	Matt, welcome and happy Thanksgiving.
1:06.8	Happy Thanksgiving.
1:07.9	Just thanks for having me on again.
1:09.8	Absolutely.
1:10.5	I've been looking forward to this. I know that you follow these cases closely,
1:13.9	so I'm curious to hear your insights. A couple of them have some bizarre sort of beginnings of
1:19.7	investigation. We don't know quite sure yet what's going on. So I'm curious to see what you think
1:24.5	might be taking place behind the scenes. The first case takes us out to Los Angeles, my neck of the woods,
1:30.5	where police have now named a famous singer as an official suspect in the ongoing murder
1:36.2	investigation of a girl whose dismembered body was found in the singer's trunk.
1:41.3	Months after the recovery of 14-year-old Celeste Revis Hernandez, speculation
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