We Saw the Devil: A True Crime Podcast

We Saw the Devil
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Day-by-day courtroom coverage of the cases everybody's arguing about, done with the filings in front of me. Not vibes. Not a theory somebody's cousin saw on TikTok. The actual record: what the witness said, what the document says, which expert has never treated the condition they were hired to testify about. Murder, medical neglect, prosecutorial games, and the cases nobody bothers covering because the victim wasn't the right kind of victim. Then the part most true crime skips. Who let it happen. Which agency looked away, which law made it possible, which doctor never returned the call, which department was too underfunded to answer the phone. Every case sits inside a system, and the system is usually the whole story. That's where the politics shows up, and it shows up because the facts drag it in, not because I went looking for a soapbox. Hosted by Robin Coleman. Sourced, furious, filthy, and allergic to pretending cruelty is just another perspective. Y'all, this is not a polite little show for people who want everything softened, centered, and served with a bipartisan garnish. No spin. No filter. Just facts. We don't do fair. We do factual. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-a-true-crime-podcast--4433638/support.

  1. 1h ago

    Mica Miller: "Dismissed Without Prejudice" (Part Two)

    March 11, 2024. In a single day, Mica Miller found a deflation device in her tire, was followed to a gas station and then a car dealership, got calls from numbers she’d already blocked, told an officer she was afraid for her life, and had a tracking device pulled off her car. An officer warned the man she named. He said “ok.” That afternoon, Mica walked into court and filed for a restraining order with three police reports attached. Fifteen days later, it was dismissed. Part 2 tells the story of the eighteen months leading up to that hearing, in order. It starts with a November 2022 911 call from her sister’s house, the night federal prosecutors say the cyberstalking began. Then February 2024, the month she was committed, stripped of her phone, her car, and the evidence for her divorce, and told by police it was a “civil matter.” Then March: the oysters text, the razors, the trackers, the restraining order she built herself, and the call he made to police the day after it was dismissed. In this episode: Day One: “armed and ready,” a pardon, six guns, and a husband whose location the family was trackingFebruary: the map call, the commitment, the choking allegation that went nowhere, and the car he kept because of her “episodes”March: the restraining order, the theft complaint with her name on it, the Facebook videos, and March 26April: “This is not the first time,” the separation papers, and how six offices in two counties held a piece of her story without anyone putting it togetherReality Check: why stalking almost never gets called stalking, and what to do if it’s happening to youJohn-Paul Miller has pleaded not guilty to federal charges of cyberstalking and making false statements. He hasn’t gone to trial. He has never been charged in his wife’s death, which authorities ruled a suicide. Everything in the indictment is an allegation until a jury says otherwise. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-a-true-crime-podcast--4433638/support. Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil Robin's Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/robin_wstd Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast TikTok: tiktok.com/@wesawthedeviltruecrime

  2. 23h ago

    Roundup: Matthew Farwell Convicted, Russell Brand Sentenced & Sonia Exelby’s Trial Begins

    Russell Brand is going to prison, Lindsay Clancy is going back to trial, and a former cop is finally a convicted killer. Then the full story of Sonia Exelby, before her trial and before the internet can get it wrong again. In the quick hits: Russell Brand, who spent years telling you the mainstream media was out to get him, gets ten and a half years for rape and sexual assault. Turns out it was a jury. A Massachusetts judge tells Lindsay Clancy’s defense that a hung jury doesn’t mean she skips the second trial. A federal jury convicts former Stoughton detective Matthew Farwell of killing Sandra Birchmore and her unborn son, almost six years after her death was conveniently ruled a suicide. And in South Carolina, searchers dig 11-month-old Koah Sharpe out of the ground alive. So far, the only charges against the man investigators say took him are burglary and resisting arrest. Then Christa Pike. Six weeks ago, Tennessee tried to execute her and failed. Now the state wants a judge to make sure nobody gets to test the drug it used. Very normal behavior from a state with nothing to hide. The main story is Sonia Exelby, the British woman the internet decided was a quirky headline: “woman flies to Florida to be killed.” Dwain Hall is charged with her kidnapping and first-degree murder. He has pleaded not guilty, and jury selection starts November 16th in Marion County, Florida. In the Reality Check, I go after the headlines that decide who counts as a victim: media framing, missing white woman syndrome, and what the true crime genre owes the people it profits from. This show included, because I’m not exempting myself. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-a-true-crime-podcast--4433638/support. Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil Robin's Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/robin_wstd Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast TikTok: tiktok.com/@wesawthedeviltruecrime

  3. 6d ago

    Russell Brand Guilty Verdict + EDP445 Charged After Chris Hansen Interview

    Two men spent years acting like nobody could prove anything. This week they found out the most dangerous witness was themselves. A London jury convicted Russell Brand of rape and three counts of sexual assault, and acquitted him on three counts. He’s sentenced Monday. I cover the trial and his slide from left-wing darling to MAHA mascot.EDP445, Bryant Moreland, was charged with four felonies and arrested in Nevada, five years after the 2021 “cupcake” sting. He hasn’t gone to trial. His own words to Chris Hansen are now the center of the case. Watch: The Sick Mind of EDP445 by Mike Clum on YouTube. All proceeds go to RAINN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOqYIVKfV-U Ad-free on Patreon: We Saw the Devil Transcripts: wesawthedevil.com Instagram: @wesawthedevilpodcast , @robin_wstd TikTok: @wesawthedeviltruecrime Twitter/X: @wesawthedevil Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-a-true-crime-podcast--4433638/support. Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil Robin's Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/robin_wstd Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast TikTok: tiktok.com/@wesawthedeviltruecrime

  4. Nov 4

    Matthew Farwell Trial, Lori Vallow Appeal, Lindsay Clancy Retrial & Olney House of Horrors

    The red wave died on a truck stop bathroom floor, I was spectacularly wrong about Michigan, and Matthew Farwell’s defense spent two days trying to snap the prosecution’s case over a hyoid bone. Also, Lori Vallow is back, because that woman will outlive us all out of pure spite. IN THIS EPISODE Election Fallout: Democrats took the House and the Senate, flipping Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, Kansas and Iowa. Kansas! A Democrat! First time since 1932! I gloat, I mourn Ken Paxton (I do not), and I unveil the agenda: litter boxes in every classroom, mandatory trans for your Uncle Gary, and drag story hour on Fox and Friends. Plus a public apology to Abdul El-Sayed, who I swore up and down was going to lose. Never let me near a betting app. Matthew Farwell Trial, Nov. 2-3: The defense came for Dr. William Smock with a battering ram. Kentucky’s own chief medical examiner on what Smock does and doesn’t do, a hyoid bone specialist in a full-blown rematch with him, a pattern expert on the strap clasp, a DNA expert describing a ligature allegedly crumpled into plastic like a gym sock and never compared to the twin brother, and the FBI’s own bone expert, called by the defense, not the government. The judge told two experts “you may be losing the jury here,” which is federal for “shut up, juror seven is drooling.” Closings Friday. Farwell has pleaded not guilty and is presumed innocent. Lori Vallow Daybell: The reason this podcast exists is asking the Idaho Supreme Court for a do-over, arguing she was robbed of her lawyer, a man who also represented her co-defendant. One justice called him a “loose cannon, bull in a china shop, run amok.” Three metaphors, one question. And she’s willing to risk the death penalty coming back to get there.  Lindsay Clancy: Prosecutors want round two but won’t say on what charges. Double jeopardy, the holdout juror, a gag order fight, and Kevin Reddington telling a sitting judge “you’re not going to stop me.” I break down every charge and option on the table and tell you exactly why retrying her is a colossal waste of Massachusetts’ money. Plus a Florida woman charged with secretly recording Patrick Clancy’s father for Instagram content. Leave that family alone. The Olney House: No new evidence, just the most unhinged paper trail I’ve read all year. R.C. Horsch’s family promising a judge “no recurrence of illegal activity,” a cooperation deal that shaved years off a 20-year mandatory minimum and charged nobody, a missing woman who once spoke for him in court, and a “letter from the mayor” telling cops not to arrest him that nobody can find. Eugene Horsch faces federal firearms and false-credential charges, is not charged in connection with the missing women, and is presumed innocent. RESOURCES There is no 24-hour wait to report someone missing. Do it now. NamUs: namus.nij.ojp.gov 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: call or text 988 SOURCES Boston Globe, NBC Boston, Boston.com, MassLive, Enterprise News, CBS Boston, East Idaho News, AP, The Blaze, Men’s Journal, ABA Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, 6abc, Fox 29, NBC Philadelphia, CBS Philadelphia, CBS News, NPR, Al Jazeera. Full links and transcript at wesawthedevil.com COME YELL WITH ME Patreon: We Saw the Devil (the unfiltered, off-the-leash version) Instagram: @wesawthedevilpodcast and @robin_wstd Threads: @wesawthedevilpodcast TikTok: @wesawthedeviltruecrime X: @wesawthedevil Facebook: wesawthedevil Transcripts: wesawthedevil.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-a-true-crime-podcast--4433638/support. Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil Robin's Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/robin_wstd Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast TikTok: tiktok.com/@wesawthedeviltruecrime

  5. Nov 3

    The Death Penalty & Executions: The Crowd at the Scaffold

    In 1757, Paris tore a man apart with horses while Casanova rented a window to watch. In 2026, Tennessee pushed two doses of pentobarbital into Christa Pike’s arms, closed a curtain, and failed to kill her. And a whole lot of people were furious that she lived. Tonight we’re not coming for a killer. We’re coming for the audience. That includes you, and it definitely includes me. Robin breaks down Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish and Thomas Mathiesen’s “synopticon” in plain English: why the state moved executions behind walls, how surveillance taught us to police ourselves, and how the internet handed every one of us a seat at the scaffold. From Court TV to Karen Read, mugshot websites to Ring doorbells, Reddit’s Boston Marathon witch hunt to a tarot-reading TikToker hit with a $10 million defamation verdict, we look at what happens when the crowd stops watching punishment and starts choosing who gets punished. Then we go inside the failed execution of Christa Pike at Riverbend in Nashville: the crime against 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, the childhood abuse Pike’s jury never heard about, the warnings the state ignored, the curtain that closed while witnesses listened to her breathe, and the doctor who now says the drug went into the tissue of her arms instead of her veins. Plus the Pentagon’s plan to livestream a firing squad, the politicians shopping for new ways to kill, and the bloodlust that came from the people you’d least expect. The Reality Check is the most direct Robin has ever been: the science on deterrence, brain development, trauma, lethal injection, wrongful convictions, and victims’ families, and why cheering for an execution says more about us than about the person on the gurney. NEW ON PATREON: A Patreon-only episode on Krew Zaugg and Cadon Dahle, out now. Unfiltered, unsupervised, and only at patreon.com under We Saw the Devil. If this show matters to you, please rate and review it. This is an independent podcast with no network behind it, and your reviews are how new listeners find us. FOLLOW WE SAW THE DEVIL Website: wesawthedevil.com Instagram: @wesawthedevilpodcast and @robin_wstd TikTok: @wesawthedeviltruecrime Twitter: @wesawthedevil Facebook: wesawthedevil Patreon: We Saw the Devil SELECTED SOURCES Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish (1975) Thomas Mathiesen, “The Viewer Society,” Theoretical Criminology (1997) Associated Press, minute-by-minute account of Christa Pike’s failed execution Death Penalty Information Center, Christa Pike case timeline, innocence data, and 2025 year-end report Nashville Banner reporting on the Pike case New York Magazine interview with Dr. Mark Fowler, via Fox News NPR, “Gasping for Air: Autopsies Reveal Troubling Effects of Lethal Injection” (2020) Gross et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2014) Armour and Umbreit, Marquette Law Review de Quervain et al., Science (2004); Carlsmith, Wilson and Gilbert (2008) National Registry of Exonerations Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-a-true-crime-podcast--4433638/support. Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil Robin's Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/robin_wstd Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast TikTok: tiktok.com/@wesawthedeviltruecrime

  6. Oct 31

    The Matthew Farwell Trial Week 3: Prosecution Rests, Defense Begins

    ***Due to a busy schedule, this episode is unedited and raw. Happy Halloween!  Matthew Farwell trial, week 3: the prosecution rests in the Sandra Birchmore murder case, and the defense starts building its suicide argument. We cover all five days of testimony, Monday through Friday. Former Stoughton police detective Matthew Farwell is on trial in Boston federal court, charged with killing 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore and her unborn child in her Canton, Massachusetts apartment in February 2021 and staging it as a suicide. Prosecutors say he groomed and sexually exploited her starting when she was 15 in the Stoughton Police Explorers program. Farwell has pleaded not guilty. His defense says Birchmore died by suicide after he ended their affair. IN THIS EPISODE Monday: the medical examiner who first ruled Sandra Birchmore’s death a suicide explains what Massachusetts State Police never told her, including the “nothing new to report” emailTuesday: Matthew Farwell’s twin brother, William “Billy” Farwell, testifies under immunity: “I didn’t believe my brother was that dumb,” the “Did you Tom Brady that?” phone comment, and his account of a parking-lot meeting with lead investigator John FanningTuesday: strangulation expert Dr. William Smock on the fractured hyoid bone, the clasp imprint, the broken flamingo necklace, and why he calls it an altered crime sceneThe July 2024 truck crash and “goodbye letter” before Farwell’s FBI arrestWednesday: digital forensics expert Jessica Hyde’s second-by-second phone timeline (9:13 to 9:43 p.m.), the government rests, and former U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins is escorted out of courtThursday: the defense’s first full day: Sandra’s ex-boyfriend, Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Mindy Hull, and the assistant who removed her bodyFriday: defense forensic psychiatrist Dr. Melissa Piasecki on suicide risk factors, and the cross-examination question the jury never heard answeredWhere the Farwell trial stands: remaining defense witnesses, closing arguments, and when the jury could get the case PATREON: Bonus episode coming tomorrow on Krew Zaugg and how young, popular men walk away from sexual abuse cases with almost no consequences. Patreon: We Saw the Devil FOLLOW Website: wesawthedevil.com Instagram: @wesawthedevilpodcast Instagram (Robin) @robin_wstd TikTok: @wesawthedeviltruecrime X: @wesawthedevil Facebook: wesawthedevil SOURCES Boston Globe, CBS Boston, NBC10 Boston, Boston 25 News, WHDH 7News, WJAR NBC 10, Boston.com, GBH News, Los Angeles Magazine, MassLive, The Enterprise, Patch, U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Massachusetts, Obstetrics & Gynecology. Full source links at wesawthedevil.com. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-a-true-crime-podcast--4433638/support. Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil Robin's Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/robin_wstd Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast TikTok: tiktok.com/@wesawthedeviltruecrime

  7. Oct 27

    I'm Not Sorry: Violence Against Women, the Manosphere, and Why So Many of Us Are Done

    Six in ten American women have experienced intimate partner violence. Nearly one in five have survived the kind that can kill. The US ranks 31st in the world on women's wellbeing. A third of Gen Z men surveyed globally say a wife should always obey her husband. And two of the loudest voices selling masculinity to boys are facing rape charges. This episode is about why so many women are saying out loud that they hate men, and why Robin's not apologizing. In this episode: -The "last woman on earth" question and what history says happens to women when society collapses - New national data from Tulane and UC San Diego, Georgetown's Women, Peace and Security Index, and femicide - Andrew Tate's new indictment and the Clavicular arraignment - The Lindsay Clancy mistrial, the holdout juror, and why men couldn't let it go - Five of Donald Trump's most misogynistic quotes - Pauline Harmange's "I Hate Men" and the French official who tried to ban it - Reality Check: what men, women, and institutions can actually do Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-a-true-crime-podcast--4433638/support. Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil Robin's Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/robin_wstd Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast TikTok: tiktok.com/@wesawthedeviltruecrime

  8. Oct 26

    Updates: Christa Pike, Lindsay Clancy, Linda Henning, & the End of the Olney Search

    Four updates this week, and the strangest is out of New Mexico. In 2002, Linda Henning stood trial for her life in the 1999 disappearance and presumed murder of Girly Chew Hossencofft, a bank teller whose body has never been found. Last week a judge ruled Henning had been so delusional she believed she was on trial over "golden discs." The judge threw out the conviction, ordered a new trial, and on Friday let her out after 27 years in custody. We go through the con man who called himself a surgeon, the lizard-people seminar, the blood evidence, the defense that backfired, and why trying someone who can't understand their own trial is unconstitutional. Also in this episode: OLNEY: The FBI and Philadelphia police have wrapped their search of 417 W. Chew Ave. No human remains found. Animal bones, a safe hidden in a wall, adipocere ("grave wax"), and DNA still being tested. Seven women are still connected to the house. LINDSAY CLANCY: A judge rejects the defense bid to investigate the holdout juror, and a new poll says nearly half of Massachusetts voters want her retried. CHRISTA PIKE: Tennessee tried to execute her in Nashville on Sept. 30 and failed. We cover what happened in the chamber, what's happened since, this week's new court filing, and whether the state can try again. Olney tips: Philadelphia Police, 215-686-TIPS (8477). Homicide Unit: 215-686-3334. Next episode: an update on the Matthew Farwell trial. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-a-true-crime-podcast--4433638/support. Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil Robin's Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/robin_wstd Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast TikTok: tiktok.com/@wesawthedeviltruecrime

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Day-by-day courtroom coverage of the cases everybody's arguing about, done with the filings in front of me. Not vibes. Not a theory somebody's cousin saw on TikTok. The actual record: what the witness said, what the document says, which expert has never treated the condition they were hired to testify about. Murder, medical neglect, prosecutorial games, and the cases nobody bothers covering because the victim wasn't the right kind of victim. Then the part most true crime skips. Who let it happen. Which agency looked away, which law made it possible, which doctor never returned the call, which department was too underfunded to answer the phone. Every case sits inside a system, and the system is usually the whole story. That's where the politics shows up, and it shows up because the facts drag it in, not because I went looking for a soapbox. Hosted by Robin Coleman. Sourced, furious, filthy, and allergic to pretending cruelty is just another perspective. Y'all, this is not a polite little show for people who want everything softened, centered, and served with a bipartisan garnish. No spin. No filter. Just facts. We don't do fair. We do factual. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-a-true-crime-podcast--4433638/support.

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