Why Is an Arkansas County Protecting a Predator and Punishing a Father Who Saved His Daughter?
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🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In Lonoke County, Arkansas, Aaron Spencer — a father who allegedly shot a known predator he found with his 14-year-old daughter — isn’t being hailed as a hero. He’s being prosecuted for second-degree murder.
Meanwhile, the same system that failed to protect his child seems more determined to protect its own image.
The man he shot, Michael Fosler, wasn’t a mystery to law enforcement. His record included sexual indecency with a child and online predation charges. Yet somehow, he was still free — free enough to allegedly lure a teenage girl onto a dark rural road. Police say when Spencer found them together, he reacted the way any terrified father might. Now, that reaction could send him to prison.
And here’s where it gets even more surreal: Aaron Spencer is now running for sheriff — against the very department that arrested him. His campaign slogan: “Restoring Trust.” For many in Lonoke County, that message hits harder than any political ad. They see a broken system, a failed chain of protection, and a father who finally drew a line the system refused to.
So why is this happening? Why does a man who defended his daughter face murder charges, while the institutions that failed her face none?
Joining me is Defense Attorney and Former Prosecutor Bob Motta — host of Defense Diaries and BURIED: Inside the John Wayne Gacy Investigation — to unpack how a story of survival turned into a political and legal firestorm.
Hosted by Tony Brueski | Guest: Bob Motta
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| 1:28.2 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 1:36.4 | Let's switch gears now. |
| 1:38.9 | I want to talk about another case that we are both very passionate about it, have been following. |
| 1:45.9 | Out of Lono County, Arkansas, Aaron Spencer, the father accused of shooting the man he found |
| 1:52.2 | with his 14-year-old daughter. He's now running for sheriff, and I think this is a lovely story. |
| 1:58.1 | I mean, it's a horrible story, but it's a lovely way he is taking the ball and |
| 2:02.7 | running with it and not being a victim to the system that's trying to run him off the road. |
| 2:07.9 | Just like he ran off the road, the man who came into his house in the middle of the night, |
| 2:13.7 | kidnapped his 14-year-old daughter, who he'd already assayed, |
| 2:18.2 | and then finally, Aaron, after he discovers his daughter's missing, |
| 2:23.7 | catches up to him, drives him off the road, and kills him |
| 2:26.6 | because he approaches him and he's attacking. |
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