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Sheriff Mickey Stines: Paranoia, Shooting, and Grand Jury Secrets

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews

Tony Brueski

News, True Crime, News Commentary

4.2612 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Sheriff Mickey Stines: Paranoia, Shooting, and Grand Jury Secrets
In this explosive first half, Hidden Killers Live unpacks the case of Sheriff Mickey Stines — the Kentucky lawman who shocked his community by shooting Judge Kevin Mullins inside his own chambers. Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, Todd Michaels, and defense attorney/former prosecutor Eric Faddis break down newly unsealed grand jury transcripts that reveal key evidence was withheld, including a mental health diagnosis the day before the shooting.

The team dissects raw footage of Stines in the courthouse hallway, showing a paranoid, unstable man immediately after the crime. They also examine how the secretive grand jury process may have denied jurors crucial information, why jail intake records describing Stines as “actively psychotic” matter, and how community rumors risk poisoning a fair trial. This segment explores the psychological unraveling of a sheriff — and whether justice itself was compromised before the trial even began.

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0:00.0

A Better Help ad.

0:02.3

Lewis Capaldi partnered with Better Help to get word out about how important therapy can be.

0:07.6

I struggle most weeks to get up, get myself up and ready and go to therapy or whatever.

0:13.0

Even like to open the laptop to talk to, my therapist sometimes could be really difficult.

0:17.4

But I do it because I realise how important it is for me to continue to feel

0:21.3

good. Because I felt the best I've felt in a long time through therapy.

0:25.6

Learn more about online therapy at betterhelp.com.

0:29.5

A better help ad.

0:31.5

Lewis Capaldi partnered with BetterHelp to get word out about how important therapy can be.

0:36.8

I struggle most weeks to get up, get myself up and ready and go to therapy or whatever.

0:42.2

Even like to open the laptop to talk to, my therapist sometimes could be really difficult.

0:46.6

But I do it because I realise how important it is for me to continue to feel good.

0:51.0

I felt the best I've felt in a long time through therapy.

0:54.8

Learn more about online therapy at betterhelp.com.

0:58.5

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

1:07.3

We're going to be joining in just a...

1:09.7

Yeah, we're going to be joining by Eric Fattis here in just a few moments.

1:13.8

A defense attorney, former prosecutor.

1:16.3

We're going to talk about the Mickey Stein's case, and we're going to talk about the latest developments in that because there's some big things that have come out, the unsealing of grand jury transcripts.

1:28.6

Now, this may have actually been an accident.

1:31.5

The transcripts give us a look behind the curtain of what was going on in those court chambers.

1:40.2

If you're new to this case, Mickey Steins, the sheriff, who shot the judge in his quarters at very close contact.

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