Nicholas Stanley Removed a Danger From Children The State Ignored, Here's How To Show Support
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Nicholas Stanley walked right up to the door of a known child molester’s motel room, knocked, and pulled the trigger. Now he’s sitting in jail, unapologetic, facing decades behind bars—and making headlines with his raw, unfiltered jailhouse confession.
In this episode, we dissect the case of 35-year-old Stanley, who admitted to killing Allen Cogswell, a convicted sex offender who had abused a young family member. Released on parole just weeks earlier, Cogswell was staying at the Daylite Inn in Elkhart, Indiana. That’s where Stanley found him—and ended him.
“I did what I had to,” Stanley told reporters from jail, declining legal counsel and showing zero remorse. His confession has divided his family—and the public. His father calls him a hero. His sister worries his untreated mental health and grief spiraled into irreversible violence. And the legal system? It’s ready to throw the book at him.
Is this justice or vigilante violence? A man pushed too far—or one who took justice into his own hands for the wrong reasons?
A jury will decide. But the public already has an opinion.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. |
| 0:04.9 | An Indiana man charged with murder showing no remorse after admitting to fatally shooting. |
| 0:11.9 | A convicted child molester who had abused a young member of his family. |
| 0:18.8 | That's what we're going to be talking about today. |
| 0:21.0 | Carol Hughes is with us as well. |
| 0:24.3 | I got to say, going into this story, I'm kind of like, well, can we buy him lunch? |
| 0:29.5 | Can we fill his canteen? |
| 0:30.7 | Can we, how can we help? |
| 0:33.4 | How can we help this man for doing maybe the Lord's work, dare I say? |
| 0:40.4 | I know. |
| 0:41.0 | It's tough. |
| 0:42.1 | You know, what's so sad, though, is, but he is a dad himself. |
| 0:47.8 | This was not one of his kids. |
| 0:50.2 | But now he could go to prison for a long time and his kids won't have their dad. |
| 0:55.5 | That's why it's not a good idea because you got to think about that. |
| 0:58.6 | You got to think about the people who do need you, who do love you, who do care about you, |
| 1:02.3 | who you would benefit much greater in this life being free versus taking out the child molester |
| 1:08.0 | because hopefully prison and the law does that to them. |
| 1:11.3 | Or maybe somebody else who doesn't have a family and needs you to be there for them could take up the fight. |
| 1:18.7 | You know, just saying, never a good idea to go kill somebody, but it's a child molester. |
| 1:25.1 | I get it. |
| 1:26.8 | Nicholas Stanley, 35, is accused of killing |
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