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. 9h ago

    The Olney House Update: A Week of Bones

    Luminol on Monday. Human DNA on Tuesday, per police sources. An excavator in the backyard, a shed torn down, and dirt sifted three feet deep like a mass grave. Then on Thursday, the medical examiner pulled up to 417 West Chew Avenue because somebody found bones. Nobody knows yet whether they’re human. Philly PD isn’t confirming a damn thing. And Eugene Horsch’s lawyer went on CBS Philadelphia to call the whole investigation a “runaway train,” which is a bold choice for a man whose client was arrested with a cattle prod in his car. This week I walk through the entire Olney case from the beginning. A park ranger, an illegally parked BMW near the Liberty Bell, and a woman saying “you’re going to hurt me.” Then everything that’s happened since, through the biggest week of the investigation so far. In this episode: The June 19 traffic stop: fake DEA and FBI credentials, a missing woman’s ID, and a car full of weaponsWho R.C. Horsch was: counterfeiter, meth cook, pornographer, and self-described “empathetic serial killer”His book “Empathy” and why Amazon pulled everything he wroteThe 2025 narcotics search that walked through the house and never mentioned a missing womanGabrielle Amarando, Amy McHale, Maribel Fresses, Nicole Fusaro, and Blair TonzelliWhy women from Kensington fall through the cracks, and how a predator used that gapThe basement lab, the 55-gallon drum, five urns, and more than a million images and videosThis week, day by day: luminol, DNA, the backyard dig, and the bonesA Jane Doe’s account of the second-floor bedroomWhat alkaline hydrolysis is, and why the bones may or may not matterEugene’s lawyer, his negotiations with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and where Eugene’s case standsWhat to watch next week, including the Chalfont house nobody has searched R.C. Horsch died in 2025 and was never charged. Eugene Horsch faces federal gun, drug, and fake-credential charges. He is not charged in connection with any woman’s disappearance or death. As of recording, police have not publicly confirmed any human remains. If you have information: call the Philadelphia Police tip line at 215-686-TIPS (8477), or reach the homicide unit directly at 215-686-3334. 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. Oct 10

    Mica Miller - 528 Days (Part One)

    February 6, 2024. A pastor calls Horry County police and reads them his wife’s location in real time. He isn’t following her, he explains. He’s “watching her on the map.” Over the next ten weeks, Mica Miller contacted police at least fourteen times for help involving her husband, John-Paul Miller, pastor of Solid Rock Church in Myrtle Beach. Five of those contacts involved tracking devices. South Carolina already had harassment and stalking laws built for exactly this kind of pattern. Mica used them herself. On March 26, 2024, her restraining order case was dismissed without prejudice. Netflix gave you her life. This series is the paper: police reports, dispatch logs, sworn affidavits, and the federal docket. In this episode: The Company Town: Solid Rock, the son who bought the church from his father, the nanny, and the fight over how old she wasThe Marriage: the signature tattoo, the postnup, the November 2022 hospitalization, and the two stories about MicaFourteen Calls: the February commitment, the car, March 11, the trackers, and the restraining order she filed herselfSix Hundred Days: the official findings on her death, his texts and email, the FBI, and the federal indictment 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. Oct 7

    Olney House of Horrors (Part 4): R.C. Horsch Now Officialy Named As Suspected Serial Killer

    "Basically, I'm a sociopath, always have been." R.C. Horsch said that into a public radio microphone in 2014. This week, law enforcement sources told CBS Philadelphia they consider him a suspected serial killer, and the FBI and Philadelphia police began taking his Olney house apart. This week in breaking news:  - What "suspected serial killer" means for a man who can never be charged - Peter Crimmins' lost WHYY interviews with Horsch: the sociopath line, the stolen name, and the imaginary patron in Boca Raton - Phase Two of the search: hazmat suits, the basement lab, luminol, and two clogged sewer pipes - Can you prove murder without a body? - Reality Check: why the same women keep disappearing, and what you can do Seven missing women are connected to 417 West Chew Avenue. Police believe five are dead. No remains have been found. R.C. Horsch died in 2025 and was never charged. Eugene Horsch faces federal gun and false ID charges, is not charged in connection with any of the women, and is presumed innocent. Tips: Philadelphia Police, 215-686-TIPS (8477) 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. Oct 6

    Sandra Birchmore: The Matthew Farwell Murder Trial Begins Today (Breaking News)

    February 1, 2021. A blizzard is closing in on Boston. According to federal prosecutors, a Stoughton police detective texts 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore and asks if he can come by for a second. At 9:40 p.m., her phone logs eight steps. It never moves again. Three days later she's found dead in her Canton apartment, eight to ten weeks pregnant. By May, Massachusetts had ruled it a suicide. Today, jury selection began in federal court in Boston in the trial of former Stoughton detective Matthew Farwell. Prosecutors say he killed Sandra to keep her from exposing federal crimes, including sexually abusing her beginning when she was 15, and that he caused the death of her unborn son. Farwell has pleaded not guilty. His defense says Sandra died by suicide. In this episode: - How Sandra met Farwell through the Stoughton Police Explorers youth program - The twelve days between a friend's call to the police department and Sandra's death - The investigation that ruled suicide, and the medical examiner who says she was never told the death was suspicious - The laptop data state police lost four days before Farwell's arrest - Why this is a federal case, and why prosecutors have to prove more than who killed her - DNA, the hyoid fracture, the paternity twist, and the phone search fight that broke days before trial - The witness lists, the Karen Read crossover, and what to watch when openings begin Friday - Reality Check: abuse in police Explorer programs, strangulation as a predictor of homicide, and what families can do when a death ruling doesn't fit Plus the Commonwealth Docket Forecast, because Massachusetts now schedules murder trials the way other states schedule farmers markets. 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. Oct 5

    "Free Pus*y Upstairs": The Cornell Seven

    NOTE: For whatever reason, even after correctly stating her age multiple times, around 22 minutes in, Robin incorrectly refers to Jane Doe as 21 years old.  At 1:42 a.m. on October 20, 2024, according to a civil lawsuit, a Chi Phi brother at Cornell University told a Snapchat group of more than fifty fraternity members there was "free p*ssy upstairs." Upstairs was a twenty year old sophomore. Not one person in that chat went to the police. Two years later, nobody has been charged. Then Jane Doe sued, the Tompkins County DA reopened the case, Governor Kathy Hochul pulled it from him, and New York Attorney General Letitia James opened an active criminal investigation. This update covers everything that has broken since the lawsuit was filed. The seven men named in the suit: Matthew Ingalls, Johnathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar. None has been charged. All seven deny wrongdoing. We go through what each man is accused of, and exactly how Cornell disciplined each one, from expulsion to reflection papers. The night, three ways: the lawsuit, the six page statement the DA built his decision on, and the police interview transcript he says he never saw. Where they agree, where they don't, and a correction on air about what her signed statement actually says. The group chat: the photo, "Shop still open?", "Boys come whip it out," and the brother who went upstairs to "check on her" and reported back. The texts: why Jane Doe told one of the men "non of the sexual stuff was illegal," why she reassured the people she later accused, and why survivors do exactly this. Breaking: according to Cornell's Title IX record, one of the accused men called a sorority member the next day asking her to keep a friend quiet. Asked how the brothers handled the rumors, he told investigators: "We were just in the idea of just deny." Plus the witness statement nobody can find. Why nobody was charged: New York's voluntary intoxication rule, which says a woman who chose to drink may not count as incapacitated, and a prosecutor who may not have had the whole record. The circus: #IAmJaneDoe, the doxxing attempts, the mob going after the wrong people, and the men online who audited her texts before they ever audited the chat. Reality Check: what fifty silent men actually tells you, and why trying to unmask Jane Doe is the most disgusting part of this entire story. If you or someone you know needs support, the RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline is 1 800 656 HOPE (4673), or online at rainn.org. 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 1

    BREAKING: Tennessee's Botched Execution of Christa Pike

    On Wednesday, September 30, the State of Tennessee tried to execute Christa Pike. It couldn't. Pike was convicted of the 1995 torture and murder of Colleen Slemmer, a 19-year-old fellow student at the Knoxville Job Corps. After a morning stay from the Sixth Circuit and an evening reversal by the U.S. Supreme Court, she was given two rounds of pentobarbital at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. According to media witnesses and her lawyers' court filings, she stayed conscious, said her arm felt like it was about to burst open, and was still audibly snoring behind a closed curtain when reporters were walked out. Then the state put her in an ambulance. The Death Penalty Information Center says no one in the U.S. had ever survived after receiving the drugs before. In this emergency episode: The night, minute by minute, from the people who were in the roomThe vein-access warnings Pike's lawyers raised in August, and the Attorney General calling them "speculation"Tony Carruthers in May, Byron Black in 2025, and Tennessee's track recordGovernor Bill Lee's demand that executions be "effective," and his second outside review since 2022The state admitting, six weeks before her date, that Pike was abused as a childColleen Slemmer, her mother May Martinez, and thirty-one years of waiting"What if it were your child?" Answered by parents who lost theirs and still opposed executing the killersWhy the state should never hold the power to kill its own citizens Reality Check: the study estimating at least 4.1% of people sentenced to death are innocent, 203 death row exonerations since 1973, and what Tennesseans can demand from the Governor's review. 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. Sep 30

    Lindsay Clancy & Christa Pike: Pink Ribbons and a 10am Execution

    Lindsay Clancy was back in court for the first time since her murder trial ended in a mistrial, and it was chaos. Plus, Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee's death row, is scheduled to be executed at 10 a.m. CT on September 30, 2026, after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to step in. Yesterday, Lindsay Clancy appeared in Plymouth Superior Court. The former Duxbury, Massachusetts labor and delivery nurse is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of her three children. She pleaded not guilty, and her jury deadlocked 11 to 1 in favor of not guilty by reason of insanity. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington argued the Commonwealth never proved she caused the deaths. Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham called that argument "laughable." In this episode I break down: - The Rule 25 motion for a required finding of not guilty - Martin Weinberg's double jeopardy motion to dismiss - The fight over sealed jury notes and sidebar records - The "Juror Doe" motion aimed at the holdout juror - The DA's push for a gag order on Reddington - Why nobody will commit to a retrial date Plymouth County DA Timothy Cruz still won't say whether he'll retry the case. The next hearing is November 2. CHRISTA PIKE:  In 1995, Christa Pike was 18 when she tortured and killed Colleen Slemmer, a 19-year-old fellow student at the Knoxville Job Corps Center. Sentenced to death at 20, she has spent 30 years on death row, most of it as the only woman there. We cover the crime, Colleen's life and her mother's 30-year wait, the defense arguments about age, childhood abuse and mental illness, Governor Bill Lee's clemency denial, the Supreme Court's denial, and Tennessee's lethal injection protocol after the abandoned Tony Carruthers execution attempt. If carried out, it would be the first execution of a woman in Tennessee in more than 200 years. One woman gets supporters in pink outside the courthouse. The other gets AI-generated videos of herself crying. What the public reaction to both cases says about who gets mercy in America, how jurors became targets, and why death penalty support is at its lowest point in 50 years. 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. Sep 26

    Tennessee, Christa Pike, and an Execution Scheduled for Next Wednesday

    ***Show note: Robin is still insanely sick with COVID and this episode is not closely edited.   On January 12, 1995, 18-year-old Christa Pike lured 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer to an abandoned steam plant on the University of Tennessee's agricultural campus and tortured her to death. She took a piece of Colleen's skull back to her dorm and showed it off at breakfast. She confessed. She has never denied any of it. She was also sexually abused from the age of two. At five, she drew her abuser for a kindergarten teacher, and the school called her parents. At eleven, a neighbor raped her, pleaded down, and served no prison time. At seventeen, a stranger raped her, and nobody was ever arrested. She was born with brain damage and had bipolar disorder and PTSD, none of it diagnosed until years after a jury sentenced her to die. That jury never heard any of it. Before trial, prosecutors offered her life without parole. Her lawyers spent about ninety minutes on it and didn't advise her to take it. Her co-defendant, who testified years later that he carved the pentagram, was seventeen. He got life with parole and is eligible now. The third participant got probation. On Wednesday, September 30, Tennessee plans to execute her. It would be the first woman the state has executed since 1819. The physician overseeing it is the same one who spent over an hour failing to find a vein during Tony Carruthers' execution attempt in May. Her clemency petition sits on Governor Bill Lee's desk. 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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