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Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime

Judge in Timothy Busfield's Detention Hearing Allows him to Walk; Audio Evidence Played in Court

Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime

Big Pond Podcasts

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 86 minutes

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0:00.0

Breaking tonight, Timothy Busfield is a free man, at least for now, a New Mexico judge denying the state's motion to hold him without bond, ruling that prosecutors did not meet the high legal bar to keep him jailed.

0:18.3

Pre-trial? Is there even going to be a trial?

0:21.6

Busfield walks under strict conditions,

0:24.7

as this case barrels toward a grand jury.

0:28.8

Welcome to the global phenomenon, surviving the survivor,

0:32.6

where we bring you the best guests in all of true crime.

0:36.6

Here's your host, Emmy Award winning journalist Joel Waldman.

0:40.8

What's up, SDS Nation?

0:42.1

Welcome to the global phenomenon that is surviving the survivor.

0:46.3

It is a show that brings you the very best guests in all of true crime.

0:50.4

Tonight we are breaking down all things.

0:52.9

Timothy Busfield is the actor best known for appearing in the show 30-something and then West Wing. There was a detention ruling. Of course, he has been accused on SA charges of minor children. We're going to get to what the judge said, what the prosecution had to say, what the defense actually accomplished today, and the optics that might be haunting this case going forward.

1:17.9

Without further ado, he was here with us for the entire detention hearing.

1:22.9

John Day, criminal defense out of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

1:27.0

Next up, you've got Anna Sinoda, licensed clinical social worker out of santa fe new mexico next up you've got anna sinoda licensed clinical social

1:30.7

worker out of the great state of georgia and she is the author of duck duck groom an expert of sorts

1:38.6

as you might imagine in grooming and last but not least we have david sarny, a retired detective, with the NYPD,

1:47.5

the largest police department and the best in all the world. Welcome to everybody. Just a very

1:54.3

quick recap, the judge denying the state's request to hold Timothy Busfield without bond.

2:02.2

The court found that probable cause exists, but that the state failed to show clear and convincing evidence of unavoidable danger.

2:13.0

Let's stop it there.

2:13.8

Let me go to David Sarny.

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