This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels.

All right. Today we are stepping into one of the most extraordinary and troubling cases,

I think, that we've ever covered and we still don't know most of the details.

That's what makes it so damn elusive.

It's the case that isn't just about one act of violence, but about what confessor inside a justice system when

power goes unchecked. In September of 2024, inside the Lecter County Courthouse in

Whitesburg, Kentucky, Sheriff Sean Mickey Steins walked into the chambers of District Judge Kevin Mullins.

It opened fire. We all saw it on video. Judge Mullins died there in his own office. The entire

shooting captured on courthouse surveillance. Stein surrendered immediately. He's now

indicted for the murder of a public official and awaiting trial, but that single moment didn't happen in a vacuum.

Three days earlier, Steins had been deposed in a federal civil rights lawsuit, Atkins v. Fields.

That alleges a pattern of sexual exploitation and coercion tied to the very courthouse where the shooting occurred.

In that suit, a former home incarceration officer has already pled guilty for SA, sodomy, and tampering.

Plaintiffs allege some of the misconduct took place inside Judge Mullins' chambers.

Stein's was named in that lawsuit for alleged failures of supervision,

though not accused of any sort of SA wrongdoing himself.

After the shooting body cam footage shows Stein's distraught and paranoid, pleading not to be harmed,

his lawyers have filed

notice of an insanity or extreme emotional disturbance defense. Prosecutors are opposing bond

and have not ruled out seeking the death penalty. At the time, women are now stepping

forward publicly. Some on the record with journalists like Brian Enten describing how power, fear,

and retaliation kept them silent for years. They've alleged S for favors arrangements, threats

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