Welcome back to Sword and Scale Daily, a show covering all things true crime, five days a week.

It's Monday, September 23rd. I'm your host, Ryan Williams. In Kentucky, deputies responded

to a reported shooting at a county courthouse where they found a judge dead. The suspect

is the person you'd likely least expect. Police in Nashville

were called to the scene of a woman unresponsive in her home. Her subsequent death

was ruled as suicide, but was it truly?

And in Vermont, a family of three is found dead in their home.

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On Thursday at around 3 p.m.

deputies with the Letcher County Sheriff's Office in Kentucky

responded to the county courthouse after receiving reports of shots fired.

When they arrived on the scene they were directed to the area where the shots were

heard coming from.

And as it so happened, it was from the chambers of Kentucky District Judge Kevin Mullins.

When deputies made their way inside, they found the 54-year-old a judge deceased from apparent

gunshot wounds. And at the scene, they took a surprising suspect into custody.

The alleged suspect was identified as Letcher County Sheriff, Sean Stein's, the person you would least expect in such a case.

Though a motive isn't known at the time of this writing, there are some things to note.

It was publicly known that Sheriff Stein's time in office was marred with controversy.

Before being elected as the county sheriff, Stein worked as the bailiff for Judge Mullins.

After winning the election, one of his deputies, a man by the name of Ben Fields, became

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