Who the Sheriff Shot - Kevin Mullins

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🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

On September 19, 2024, in a small Kentucky courthouse, Judge Kevin Mullins was shot and killed by his longtime friend and colleague, Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines. The episode walks listeners through the shocking events, from security footage capturing the fatal moment to Stines's immediate surrender and his defense of "extreme emotional disturbance." With the motive still unconfirmed, Jamie and John explore the deep-seated questions and rampant speculation that have shattered a community.

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0:00.0	Stoveleg Media, Igniting Conversation.
0:05.0	Welcome to True Crime to Go. What can I get for you?
0:16.0	Yeah, give me a story of an unbelievable crime, caught on camera, but still so many questions.
0:25.2	Pull up to the second window and we'll see you next crime.
0:32.4	Welcome to True Crime to Go.
0:34.7	I am John here with Jamie.
0:37.1	This case is all the buzz in Kentucky and nationally.
0:41.6	I simply cannot believe we have not covered it yet. Well, in all fairness, this is the case of
0:47.7	Sheriff Mickey Stein's killing Judge Kevin Mullins in his chambers caught on camera.
0:55.1	We have interviewed Mickey Stein's attorney, Jeremy Bartley,
0:59.8	and had a lot of conversations, done a lot of TikToks about it,
1:03.3	but we really have never just broken down what we know here on the show.
1:08.0	And there's some new info that has come out in the last week so we wanted to jump on
1:12.7	here and share that believe it or not it has been almost a year so we're going to go back to
1:18.4	september 19th 2024 that's when a small kentucky courthouse the unthinkable happened i really
1:26.5	cannot believe that this happened. So let's get
1:29.3	into it. District judge, Kevin R. Mullins, had served Letcher County faithfully since 2009.
1:36.5	I say faithfully, meaning consecutively and not necessarily morally faithfully. Does that make sense?
1:43.2	The distinction? Yes, he had been there. Does that make sense, the distinction?
1:45.7	Yes, he had been there.
1:50.1	Basically, he was there for a long time in a row.
1:52.3	He was only 54 years old.
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