What Sparked A KY Sheriff To Kill A Judge Who Was His Close Friend?

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🗓️ 22 October 2024

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Summary

What would make a sheriff shoot his longtime friend, a respected judge, right in the judge's own chambers? That’s the shocking question at the heart of today’s episode, as we delve into the alleged murder of Judge Kevin Mullins by Kentucky Sheriff Shawn "Mickey" Stines. This isn’t your typical "bad cop" story; we’re talking about two people who were friends, colleagues, even lunch buddies up until the day of the shooting. So, what happened?
Psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott joins the discussion, exploring whether this tragic event could be the result of a sudden psychotic break, the sheriff’s potential delusions, or something much darker and more calculated. We’ll dissect theories, from a possible mental health crisis to wild speculations involving secret motives, as we try to untangle this bewildering case. Did something sinister really lead the sheriff to believe his family was in danger, or is there another explanation entirely?
Could it be that something far more ordinary, yet devastating, drove Sheriff Stines to take a life?

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0:22.7	The blood washed away, but the guilt never does.
0:25.9	Welcome to Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske, featuring psychotherapist and author
0:30.7	Chauvin Scott.
0:32.6	It's not I shot the sheriff.
0:34.6	It's the sheriff shot the judge in this case. Kentucky Sheriff Sean
0:39.3	Mickey Steins being charged with the murder of longtime friend and colleague district judge Kevin Mullins.
0:46.4	It's something that shocked this small Kentucky community. These two were tight. They were personal friends.
0:52.6	They went out for lunch together. Even the very day of the murder, they went out for lunch together. People saw them hanging out all of the time, which is kind of how it works in a small community like this.
1:04.2	So for the sheriff on camera in the judge's chambers to go from a discussion to pulling out his service revolver
1:13.0	and ending the life of the judge something big had to have happened and all we know right now
1:19.9	as of this recording is that a phone number on the judge's phone seemed to have matched that of
1:26.2	the sheriff's daughter why was her number on the phone and phone seemed to have matched that of the sheriff's daughter. Why was her
1:29.1	number on the phone? And I have a hard time believing that that was the only made motivation for him
1:34.3	to pull out a gun and shoot the judge. I'm assuming there was more to this story. Joining me to
1:39.8	Scott, Sivan Scott, psychotherapist and author, what do you make of this? This is a sheriff who doesn't really have a track record of violent behavior
1:47.1	or anything of that nature.
1:49.1	Really just everyday normal human beings, as we would assume,
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