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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

FBI's Robin Dreeke: The Warning Judge Mullins Got About Mickey Stines — And Why He Ignored It

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Someone told Kevin Mullins that Mickey Stines was falling apart. Told him directly. Said Stines "couldn't take the pressure." Advised Stines to get a mental health evaluation. And Mullins — the eventual victim — did nothing.

Robin Dreeke spent twenty years at the FBI studying exactly this. Why people dismiss warnings about someone they know. Why familiarity breeds blind spots. Why the threat you trust is the threat you don't see.

This conversation digs into the behavioral dynamics of the Stines case — the access, the history, the relationship that made everyone comfortable right up until it was too late.

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0:00.0

This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels.

0:09.1

Let's go to another case.

0:10.8

Mickey Steins wasn't a stranger who wandered into that courthouse.

0:14.4

He was the sheriff.

0:15.7

He served as Kevin Mullen's bailiff for years before that.

0:19.2

These two men knew each other, worked together, ate lunch together, operated in the same

0:23.3

small town power structure where everybody knows everybody together.

0:28.4

And that's exactly what makes this case so unsettling.

0:31.0

The threat didn't come from outside.

0:32.5

It came from inside from someone who had access, trust, and a badge, someone who could walk

0:37.2

into a judge's chambers

0:38.3

in the middle of the day without raising a single alarm.

0:41.9

We're going to dig into some of the newer developments

0:44.6

in this Robin Drake, retired FBI special agent,

0:47.2

former chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program here with us.

0:52.9

Let's talk about this.

0:54.0

Steins, he walked into that courthouse as that sitting sheriff.

0:58.5

He had complete access.

1:00.2

Nobody stopped him.

1:01.4

Nobody questioned him.

1:03.6

What makes insider threats like this so dangerous and so hard to detect before it's too late,

1:15.3

even though, even though there was warning.

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