I Don’t Know Anyone That Protects Predators… Other Than Predators | The Aaron Spencer Case
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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3.3 • 907 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
A 67-year-old man, Michael Fosler, was charged with 43 felony counts involving a thirteen-year-old girl. The bond? $5,000 cash.
Weeks later, he was found in a car with that same child—alive only because her father, Aaron Spencer, intervened. Fosler didn’t survive.
Now, instead of asking why a predator was free, the system has turned its full weight on the father who protected his daughter.
This episode of Hidden Killers exposes how Judge Barbara Elmore approved the low bond, how Chief Deputy Prosecutor John Huggins chose to keep the case alive, and how a sweeping gag order—later struck down by the Arkansas Supreme Court as a “gross abuse of discretion”—tried to silence everyone asking questions.
This isn’t speculation; it’s documented history. The same judge was previously reversed for refusing to recuse herself in another child-abuse case. The same prosecutor could still drop the charges but hasn’t.
When courts and prosecutors protect predators and punish protectors, that’s not justice—it’s self-preservation.
👉 We break down the record, the reversals, and the moral collapse behind State v. Spencer.
👉 We ask the question the courtroom won’t: Who is this justice really for?
Because I don’t know anyone that protects predators… other than predators.
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| 0:50.0 | Each week on TCO, we recap a true crime documentary everyone's talking about, and we do it with hearts, sass, and just the right amount of humor. So if you like the kind of podcast where two good friends chat about a case in a thoughtful way that centers the victims, you really got to check us out. Yeah, we cover the well-known cases that you hear about in the news and the underreported cases that desperately need more attention. For almost nine years, we've been one of the most popular true crime podcasts out there. |
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| 1:28.2 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. |
| 1:31.7 | Here now, Tony Brewski. |
| 1:35.1 | I don't know anyone that protects predators other than predators. |
| 1:39.9 | Do you? |
| 1:43.0 | It's somehow in Lono County, Arkansas, the very system built to protect victims has spent the past year defending its own bad decisions. |
| 1:53.1 | Instead of the people, it failed. |
| 1:57.1 | At the center of that failure are two names now familiar with anyone following State v. Spencer, |
| 2:02.5 | Judge Barbara Elmore, and Chief Deputy Prosecutor John Huggins. |
| 2:07.4 | Their choices, the bond they approved, the order they issued, the prosecution they pursued |
| 2:13.7 | have turned a preventable tragedy into a national case study and what happens when |
| 2:19.8 | institutions protect themselves first. In June of 2024, Michael Fossler, 67-year-old piece |
| 2:29.8 | of shit, was charged with 43 felony counts involving Aaron Spencer's then 13-year-old daughter. |
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