How the Duggar Family Buried It for 13 Years — And Almost Got Away With It
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 1 April 2026
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Summary
Jim Bob Duggar needed to handle a problem in 2003. His teenage son had admitted to harming his sisters. Jim Bob had already gone to church elders. Now he needed someone in law enforcement.
He chose Arkansas State Trooper Joseph Hutchens — a personal friend — to handle it quietly. Hutchens gave Josh a stern talk. Filed nothing. Reported nothing to the Child Abuse Hotline as Arkansas law required. Hutchens was later convicted on serious criminal charges. He is currently serving fifty-six years.
In Part 3 of Hidden Killers' five-part series, Tony Brueski examines the full timeline and every institution that failed to stop it. The statute of limitations that expired before police could act. The police report published in 2015 — and ordered destroyed by an Arkansas judge the same day. According to testimony given under oath at a federal pre-trial hearing, the youngest person Josh harmed was five years old.
And Jim Bob's own sworn testimony at that 2021 federal pre-trial hearing: that he could not remember. Federal Judge Timothy Brooks reviewed that testimony and put his conclusion in writing: not credible. Selective lapse in memory. Obviously reluctant to testify against his son.
Josh was never charged for the 2002 and 2003 conduct against his sisters. Those girls never saw a prosecution specifically for what was done to them.
This is Part 3 of 5.
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