From Army Misconduct to Badge & Gun: Bob Motta On The Murder Of Sona Massey-WEEK IN REVIEW
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this powerful conversation, Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels and attorney Bob Motta expose how that happened — and why it keeps happening.
From failed background checks to lax hiring standards, the system designed to protect the public instead recycles problem officers. The result: tragedy after tragedy.
Grayson’s conviction for second-degree murder feels hollow when the larger machine that put him in that kitchen still runs unchecked. Tony and Bob unpack the loopholes, the union protections, and the culture of silence that let Grayson slip through every filter.
They also explore Illinois’ new “Sonya’s Law,” the state’s attempt to patch the holes after it was too late — and whether any of it will stop the next preventable death.
Hidden Killers — where we hold the system accountable, one case at a time.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Week in review. |
| 0:02.4 | I look back at the most prolific stories of the week. |
| 0:05.2 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:14.8 | On July 6th, 2024, a woman named Sonia Massey did what any of us might do if we thought someone was lurking outside her home. |
| 0:22.3 | She called 911 for help. |
| 0:24.9 | But instead of safety, what walked through her front door was tragedy. |
| 0:29.7 | Moments later, Sonia was dead, shot by the very deputy who came to protect her. |
| 0:35.1 | And I'll put protect in air quotes for those of you listening on the podcast platforms. |
| 0:39.9 | Now more than a year later, the former county deputy, Sean Grayson, has been found guilty of second-degree murder in her death, |
| 0:48.5 | the verdict that raises many questions as it answers. |
| 0:52.3 | We are digging deep into this, and who else better to help us |
| 0:56.5 | dig deep into it than defense attorney and host of defense diaries, Bob Mata. We're going to talk |
| 1:02.8 | about how this system meant to serve and protect, instead failed at nearly every turn in this |
| 1:07.3 | case, and we're going to figure out what the hell went wrong or if the system it's |
| 1:12.7 | just kind of working as directed working under the um the the confines of the wheels and the tracks |
| 1:21.3 | that are already laid for it bob welcome uh. This is another crazy one. |
| 1:29.6 | We've all seen the video. |
| 1:31.1 | We're not going to play it again. |
| 1:32.4 | So if anybody's triggered, don't worry, we're not going to do that. |
| 1:36.8 | But, yeah, this is one where we got the verdict just the other week. |
| 1:42.1 | What was your reaction to finding out second degree murder on this? |
| 1:47.6 | I was outraged. |
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