Sheriff Stines BREAKING POINT: Murder of Judge Mullins EXPLAINED
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Tony Brueski
4.3 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
On September 19th, 2024, Whitesburg, Kentucky was rocked by a killing that stunned the country. Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines shot and killed his longtime friend, Judge Kevin Mullins, inside Mullins’ own chambers — just minutes after the two had lunch together. The entire murder was caught on courthouse surveillance.
In this episode of Hidden Killers with Tony Brueski, psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott joins me to analyze one of the strangest crimes in recent memory: a sheriff killing a judge on camera. Was Sheriff Stines insane, or was he pushed to the breaking point by mounting pressure?
Just three days before the killing, Stines sat for a deposition in a civil case tied to corruption and misconduct in his office. Was this murder about protecting himself, silencing secrets, or exposing a system that was already collapsing?
Bodycam footage shows Stines muttering paranoid lines like “you’re going to kill me” after his arrest — yet he surrendered calmly, without resistance. Was this paranoia real, or a legal strategy? And what does it mean when an officer of the law commits violence in the most incriminating way possible — on camera, in the seat of justice itself?
Join us as we break down the shocking murder of Judge Kevin Mullins, Sheriff Shawn Stines’ bizarre behavior, and what it reveals about power, paranoia, and corruption.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. |
| 0:03.2 | Here now, Tony Brewski. |
| 0:06.2 | You know, there are moments in true crime that are so bizarre, so stunning in their simplicity, |
| 0:12.6 | that they freeze frame in your brain. |
| 0:15.6 | September 19, 2024 in Whitesburg, Kentucky is one of those. |
| 0:21.8 | What happened that day is Sheriff, Sean Mickey Steins. |
| 0:25.8 | He had lunch with a man that he called his friend. |
| 0:30.6 | Judge Kevin Mullins. |
| 0:32.7 | They walked back to chambers, just normal old day, a setting reserve for the quiet machinery of justice, |
| 0:40.3 | and within minutes, Steins pulls a gun and shoots Mullins dead. |
| 0:45.2 | You know, right after the boneless buffalo wings at the Appleby's. |
| 0:49.5 | I don't know if that's where they went. |
| 0:51.2 | I don't know if that's what they had. |
| 0:53.1 | But that unfortunately is the only |
| 0:55.0 | made up part of that story. The gun and the chambers, someone being dead, that's all real. And it's on |
| 1:01.8 | camera. There is no ambiguity about what happened. The question is, why? On the surface, |
| 1:10.1 | prosecutors say it's cut and dry. It was just one of those murders. |
| 1:18.4 | You know, the murders are you just walk in and you shoot your friend for no reason and go nuts. |
| 1:23.9 | Hmm. When you peel back the layers and suddenly the easy answers vanish, this wasn't some bar fight or an impulsive act. |
| 1:34.0 | On the side of the road, this was a sheriff, the county's highest lawman, |
| 1:39.1 | calmly walking into the epicenter of power, a place with cameras on the ceiling, fully aware of who was in the |
| 1:47.1 | room and executing a man he had just had lunch with. |
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