MATTHEW COLEMAN- Jailhouse letters from the father who confessed to killing his children
Hidden: A True Crime Podcast
Hidden True Crime
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🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Returning home to California from Mexico - Matthew Coleman is taken into custody and confesses to killing his two young children with a spearfishing gun. According to the probable cause, Coleman had been following conspiracy theories online and believed his wife had passed her serpent DNA onto their children, which would mean his son and daugther would grow up to become monsters, and Coleman had to kill them in order to save the world.
This episode was originally recorded in the summer of 2022 - a year after Matthew Coleman confessed to killing his children. Currently, Matthew is being held in an undisclosed federal location for treatment after being deemed incompetent to stand trial in October 2023.
Matthew had a competency hearing scheduled for March 8th, 2024 but it never happened and we still wait. Hidden True Crime is following closely.
JOHN MATTHIAS is a licensed clinical and forensic psychologist with 30 years’ experience. He serves as an expert witness for the federal government and consults on high-profile cases for District Attorney’s offices and defense attorneys in several states. In the forensic area, Dr. Matthias has developed expertise in personality assessments, hidden behavioral motivations, complex trauma and criminal psychology. In the clinical realm, he has worked with numerous victims. He received his Master’s degree in Marriage, Family and Child counseling, as well his doctorate degree, from the University of Southern California. Dr. Matthias graduated with honors in philosophy from Princeton University, and he won the prestigious McCosh Thesis prize while there. In high school he graduated valedictorian from a large public high school in Chicago where he was chosen to participate in a ground-breaking valedictory study that continues to this day.
LAUREN MATTHIAS worked as an anchor in Idaho and Salt Lake City, Utah. She spent a decade reporting on a diverse range of topics from high profile crimes to Presidential visits. Most recently, she reported for Salt Lake City’s ABC affiliate News4Utah. In 2015 she received the Idaho State Broadcaster’s Association Best Reporter award and is a regular contributor on News Nation. She left the reporting world to produce the Hidden True Crime Podcast along with her husband Dr. John Matthias.
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| 0:18.0 | This video was taken from Sir F Teacher Matthew Coleman's public social media back when it used to be public. He and his wife Abbey are surrounded by friends on a California beach for a gender reveal. |
| 0:24.0 | The picture perfect couple is smiling and Matthew is holding their one-year-old son, |
| 0:29.0 | while Abby, clearly pregnant and glowing, cuts the cake and discovers they are expecting a baby girl, a sister |
| 0:36.6 | to join little Kaleo, the couple looks ecstatic among the picturesque surroundings and they |
| 0:42.4 | kiss and hug and celebrate. |
| 0:45.0 | When that same little girl Roxie is 10 months old, Matthew takes her and |
| 0:51.0 | Cleo to Mexico without warning. |
| 0:53.8 | Returning home to California, he's taken into custody and he confesses to killing both of them |
| 0:59.2 | with a spear fishing gun. |
| 1:01.2 | According to the probable cause, Coleman has been following conspiracy theories online and believed his wife had passed her serpent DNA to their children, which would mean his son and daughter would grow up to become monsters. |
| 1:13.6 | And he needed to save the world. |
| 1:16.9 | This episode we're about to play we originally recorded in the summer of 2022 |
| 1:22.1 | a year after Matthew Coleman confessed to killing his children. |
| 1:25.7 | Currently, Matthew is being held in an undisclosed federal location for treatment after being |
| 1:31.3 | deemed incompetent to stand trial, that was October 2023. |
| 1:36.0 | Well, Matthew had a competency hearing scheduled for March 8th this month to reassess, |
| 1:42.0 | but it never happened and we still wait. Hidden True Crime is following very closely. |
| 1:50.0 | Hidden, a true crime podcast, a forensic psychologist and a journalist explore the hidden motives behind |
| 1:59.5 | unthinkable crimes while examining our deepest fears along the way. Oh, great. I want to talk about a case today that I've been following from the beginning. |
| 2:31.3 | It started 10 months ago. It's about Matthew Coleman. |
| 2:35.2 | Matthew Coleman is a California surf teacher charged with two counts of first |
| 2:42.0 | degree foreign murder after killing his two young children, |
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