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Society & Culture, True Crime

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🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In this episode of True Crime News The Sidebar Podcast: Imran Ansari joins host Joshua Ritter to break down the biggest cases making headlines across the nation. They discuss Stacey Wondra’s arrest in connection to the suspected killing of his 5-year-old neighbor Michael Vaughan, Matthew Paul’s conviction for the murder of his longtime girlfriend Stephanie Pavlons, and Jake Haro faking the kidnapping of his infant son Emmanuel after fatally abusing the child. Tweet your questions for future episodes to Joshua Ritter using the hashtag #TCNSidebar. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the sidebar presented by True Crime News, taking you inside the
0:14.9	courtrooms of high profile and notorious cases from across the country.
0:18.5	I'm your host, Joshua Rudder.
0:20.1	I'm a criminal defense lawyer
0:21.0	based in Los Angeles and previously an L.A. County prosecutor for over a decade. You can find
0:26.6	me on all social platforms at Joshua Ritter ESQ or at Joshua Ritter.com. We are recording this on
0:33.9	Wednesday, November 5th, 2025. In this week's episode, a father sentenced for his infant's murder after claiming the body was abducted.
0:43.3	Plus, an alleged abusive boyfriend convicted for killing and disposing his girlfriend of 20 years.
0:51.3	But first, a neighbor charged in the death of a five-year-old boy as the search for the
0:57.0	victim's remains continue. Today, we are very excited to be joined by Imran Ansari, an attorney
1:02.7	and legal analyst you can catch on Fox, Court TV, News Nation, and many other outlets. Imran,
1:08.2	welcome back, my friend. How are you? I'm doing good, Josh. Thanks for having me. I know you're a very busy guy. You told us, were you, you said you were in court all day today? Yeah, I was in federal court, Southern District of New York pretty much all day. But this is a great way to cap off the day in court to come here chat about some cases with you, Josh.
1:27.6	Yep.
1:29.3	This is your way of unwinding.
1:38.0	After a long day in court, let's get on the YouTube and talk about some court cases taking place around the country.
1:39.1	I like it.
1:40.7	Yeah, no, let's do it.
1:41.7	And I got a newborn at home.
1:43.0	So it's, you know, we're firing on all cylinders here.
1:47.3	Congratulations, my friend.
1:48.6	I can understand both the stress and why you might want to spend a few more minutes in the office rather than heading back home to all of that.
1:59.1	So thank you again for being here.
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