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UNLV Shooting: Who is Anthony Polito? What can we learn about mass shooters? (with Psychologist Dr John Matthias)

Hidden True Crime

Hidden True Crime

True Crime, Documentary, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

On December 6, 2023, a mass shooting occurred at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Three people were killed, and three additional people were wounded. Two of the wounded were police officers. The perpetrator was killed in a shootout with police. DR. JOHN MATTHIAS is an adjunct professor at UNLV. He is a licensed clinical and forensic psychologist with 30 years’ experience in both clinical and forensic work. He serves as an expert witness for the federal government and has consulted on numerous high-profile cases for District Attorney’s offices and defense attorneys in several states. In the forensic area, Dr. Matthias has developed expertise in personality assessments, hidden behavioral motivations, complex trauma and criminal psychology. In the clinical realm, he has worked with numerous victims. He received his Master’s degree in Marriage, Family and Child counseling, as well his doctorate degree, from the University of Southern California. Dr. Matthias graduated with honors in philosophy from Princeton University, and he won the prestigious McCosh Thesis prize while there. In high school he graduated valedictorian from a large public high school in Chicago where he was chosen to participate in a ground-breaking valedictory study that continues to this day. LAUREN MATTHIAS worked as an anchor and reporter for ABC, NBC, and FOX News in Idaho and Salt Lake City, Utah. She spent a decade reporting on a diverse range of topics from high profile crimes to Presidential visits. Most recently, she reported for Salt Lake City’s ABC affiliate News4Utah. In 2015 she received the Idaho State Broadcaster’s Association Best Reporter award. She left the reporting world to produce the Hidden True Crime Podcast along with her husband Dr. John Matthias, a forensic psychologist. She is a frequent contributor for News Nation. Your support helps us produce these podcasts/videos. We have some big plans to explore the true crime terrain in a way that no one else has attempted. HIDDEN: A TRUE CRIME PODCAST is: CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY REINVENTED. Join us on a journey into the darkest recesses of the human mind and the unconscious motivations that drive human behaviors in order to understand the world and ourselves. TO SUPPORT: https://www.patreon.com/hiddentruecrime https://paypal.me/hiddentruecrime Our Sponsors:* Check out Acorns: https://acorns.com/HIDDENTRUECRIME* Check out Acorns: https://acorns.com/HIDDENTRUECRIME* Check out Armoire and use my code HIDDENTRUECRIME for a great deal: https://www.armoire.style* Check out Effecty and use my code HIDDENTRUECRIME for a great deal: https://www.effecty.com* Check out Happy Mammoth and use my code HIDDENTRUECRIME for a great deal: https://happymammoth.comSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/hidden-a-true-crime-podcast1836/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hidden, a true crime podcast. A forensic psychologist and a journalist explore the hidden motives

0:09.6

behind unthinkable crimes while examining our deepest fears along the way.

0:21.1

Hello, hidden gems. It's time for another live hidden hour with psychologist Dr. John

0:27.8

Mathias who also happens to be my amazing husband and we have missed all of you. As many of you know, we did not go live

0:38.0

last week and we have been dealing with a lot in our house and so thank you for our patience but we just really wanted to see all of you tonight.

0:46.0

Let us know if there's anything wrong with our sound throughout the night or any technical difficulties.

0:52.0

I think today we've got it and I also think that tonight might be a smaller group and we welcome that. I've even slowed down the chat a little bit but I can even speed it. So we're so excited to hear from all of you tonight and are looking forward to this discussion despite the difficult topic. And then I'm going to say this from my husband he has not been feeling well.

1:15.6

We have had COVID in our house and while he can show up that doesn't mean he necessarily can't

1:21.7

avoid coughing so we're gonna try to mute

1:24.4

when we can but please understand we're doing our best or he's doing his best.

1:28.3

Go ahead baby. Yeah no no guarantees against a coughing spell, but I've been okay the last few hours, so I'm optimistic.

1:37.2

I'll try to hold it together here for an hour, hour and a half.

1:41.5

So thank you for coming tonight. I think let me just start by mentioning that I lost my mother on November 27th,

1:52.7

and we've been grieving that.

1:55.3

And then on December 6th,

1:57.8

there was a mass shooting at UNLV,

2:00.3

and I am an adjunct faculty member at UNLV so I kind of felt like that was another reason to grieve that I didn't know the victims but I've been an adjunct professor for 17 years and I certainly feel a lot of kinship with

2:14.8

UNLV professors and the college and so that was another bit of a shock.

2:20.1

It's been a bit of a difficult time, but I think it'll help to deal with this process by talking about some of it and specifically talking about the perpetrator or I guess the alleged perpetrator I think there's no

2:36.2

question we know who did it but tonight we'll talk about mass shootings and mass murderers a little bit and specifically about Anthony

2:44.8

Polito who was the UNLV shooter.

2:48.1

I know it's somewhat controversial to talk about the names of shooters these days that there's some belief that by

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