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(Part 3) Homicide and Hate: The Plea: Devon Arthurs and the Question of Sanity

DEVIANT

Cold Open Media

Education, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

(Part 3/4) Six years after he murdered his two roommates, Devon Arthurs stands before a judge in Tampa and says he’s ready to change. But as psychiatrists describe hallucinations, self-choking episodes, and conflicting diagnoses—from schizophrenia to schizoaffective disorder—one question dominates the courtroom: Is Arthurs genuinely ill… or performing for leniency? Host Andrew Iden examines how the case twisted through years of mental-competency hearings, how experts view the psychology of radicalization, and what drives young men toward hate. Featuring analysis from Luke Baumgartner (George Washington University’s Program on Extremism), Hannah Gais (Southern Poverty Law Center), and journalist Ali Winston, this episode unpacks the intersection of ideology, identity, and illness in one of America’s most disturbing true-crime stories. 👉 Subscribe to DEVIANT for more true crime stories about murder, hate, and the American underworld. 👉 Support the show + get exclusive content: www.deviantpodcast.com 👉 Follow us on TikTok & Instagram: @deviantdopodcast Copyright 2025 Cold Open Media LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, we're going to begin this proceeding this morning. It is State of Florida

0:18.1

versus Devon Ryan Arthur's, and we were set for a trial this morning

0:24.7

that was going to last all week. However, I have been advised that Mr. Authors has reached a plea

0:33.7

agreement with the state of Florida and so we have now converted this this morning to a plea agreement with the state of Florida. And so we have now converted this this morning to a

0:40.4

plea acceptance and sentencing. In May of 2023, Devin Arthur is now 24 years old, walks into a

0:48.5

Tampa courtroom in a jumpsuit and in shackles. And he sits down next to his defense attorneys.

0:55.7

It's more than six years after he pulls a trigger and kills his two roommates, Jeremy Himmellman and Andrew

1:01.0

Oneshuk. Devin Arthur's looks a little different here than he did that day. In the mugshot from

1:08.9

the day of the murders, he's very, very young, and he's very angry.

1:14.2

Now six years later, he's grown bigger and older, and he's about to address the court.

1:21.0

All right, Ms. Donker, you had indicated earlier that you believed that Mr. Authors wanted to be heard at the end.

1:26.3

Is that correct?

1:27.1

He did. He's expressed that to me multiple times. He's prepared to make the statement to the court.

1:31.4

All right. You can use that microphone in front of you. Mr. Authors, we'll make sure it's on, and you can make your statement at this time.

1:39.3

During interviews with police after his initial arrest, Devin talks about the worldview he develops as a kid.

1:45.4

We go into that in previous episodes.

1:47.8

When he stands to speak to the court during his plea hearing,

1:51.2

he doesn't speak about the coming war for a white ethno state.

1:54.5

He makes no mention of Adam Woffon division

1:56.8

and its disdain for anything that isn't white or male.

2:00.5

I think what occurred with tragedy, I think that it's tragic for two people lost their lives

2:05.4

and prehuman terrorized and stuff.

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