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Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer says the Nancy Guthrie case reached her personally months before the latest Mexico ransom claim. In April, an extortionist sent her a demand through a private personnel email address and used a middle name she does not publicly go by. She reported the contact to the FBI and later said she did not believe the sender was one of Nancy's abductors. The message still demonstrated access to information most people would never know to look for.

On September 28, a separate message reached Nancy's friend Lauren Serpa. According to Serpa, the sender claimed Nancy was being held alive in Mexico and demanded six Bitcoin. The message included supposed proof of life, but the Pima County Sheriff's Department said on September 29 that investigators had determined the contact was not credible. Coffindaffer has warned that AI-generated images and cryptocurrency can make these schemes look more convincing while giving scammers tools to hide who they are.

Behind those scams is an unresolved kidnapping investigation. Nancy Guthrie was last seen at her Tucson-area home on January 31. The FBI released video of a masked, armed individual at her front door, and her pacemaker monitor missed its expected transmission at 2:28 a.m. on February 1. Authorities also released two February ransom notes. The first sought $4 million in Bitcoin and described details from the home; the second claimed Nancy had died and was buried in nature.

With a $1.2 million combined reward still available, the question is no longer whether scammers are circling this family. They are. The harder question is whether any digital trail from those schemes can help investigators distinguish noise from the person who actually took Nancy.

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Two cases in one sitting with defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis, and both of them have a document that predates the damage.

In Tennessee, it is a lawsuit. Christa Pike's attorneys filed in January arguing that her blood condition and small veins created a serious risk that an IV line would fail during her execution. The state disputed it. The execution went ahead on September 30, two doses of pentobarbital were administered, and Pike survived. Her lawyers say the lines failed and the drug went into the tissue of both arms. The Department of Correction says it followed its protocol exactly, and a judge ordered every piece of evidence from that room preserved on October 7.

In Massachusetts, it is a call log. A friend of Sandra Birchmore's phoned the Stoughton Police Department on January 20, 2021 to report Matthew Farwell. Prosecutors say the department told him. Sandra died February 1, and the first official ruling was suicide. That ruling was withdrawn in April 2026 and the manner left undetermined.

Faddis and Tony Brueski work the prosecution case and the defense case in both, and what the records show about who knew.

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On September 15, 2026, Nick Reiner's public defender told a Los Angeles courtroom that he has a serious mental illness and a long history of self-medicating. His circumstances, she said, show how hard it is for people like him to get treatment. Seventeen years earlier, in a $60,000-a-month room at a Malibu treatment center, a 15-year-old Nick talked every night after lights out, and the boy in the next bed has one word for it. That word, and why he chose it, is where Self-Made Monster: The Nick Reiner Story begins, and the full series runs from that room to that courtroom in one cut.

The defense's version is that he was sick, he self-medicated, and the system failed him. The record says help was brought to his door eighteen times. He said he quit heroin because he got sick of it. A podcast host who liked him wrote that he regretted being one more person who wanted Rob Reiner's attention more than Nick's. A friend recalled Nick making the family housekeeper drive across town to bring him home to use his own bathroom. When the state could finally compel his medication, in 2020, the order lasted one year and nobody renewed it. Lindsay Clancy, another defendant with a serious mental illness, sought psychiatric help repeatedly before her children died and got days in a hospital bed.

Three parts, one through line. The boy who said he picked the persona. The man who moved into the guesthouse and never left. The defendant whose lawyers, two days after the death penalty came off the table at his siblings' request, went to court for $325,017.49 of his grandfather's money. Tony lines up thirty-two years of what two parents gave against what their son gave back. Nick Reiner has pleaded not guilty.

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The Sandra Birchmore murder trial of former Stoughton police officer Matthew Farwell opened with jury selection on October 6 in Boston, and the paperwork at the center of it has been rewritten. The original 2021 ruling called Sandra's cause of death asphyxia by hanging and the manner suicide. The revised version says asphyxia, manner undetermined. The word homicide has never appeared on it.

Farwell, 40, has pleaded not guilty. His account is that he went to Sandra's Canton apartment on February 1, 2021, told her he was not the father of the child she was carrying, ended the relationship and left her alive.

His lawyers have a forensic pathologist, Dr. Thomas Andrew, former chief medical examiner of New Hampshire, who concluded a suicidal hanging cannot be ruled out. They have Judge Denise Casper's ruling allowing Sandra's mental health history and prior suicidal thoughts in front of the jury, which the government fought and lost. They also have a concession from prosecutors that Farwell's DNA was not found under Sandra's fingernails, and a disclosure that State Police lost the raw data pulled from her laptop in 2024.

Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski on which of those actually moves a juror.

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Christa Pike's failed lethal injection is the second execution Tennessee couldn't finish in five months, and the state keeps choosing the method. The Supreme Court ruled in 2019 that a prisoner can only beat a method by proving the state could easily carry out a less painful one, and Tennessee's answer to hanging and firing squads is that it isn't equipped. When a firing squad bill came up in 2023, the department had already written that it didn't know where it would begin. Amherst professor Austin Sarat's research found lethal injection botched more often than any other method, and between 2018 and 2020 five men on Tennessee's death row picked the electric chair over the needle. Idaho switched to the firing squad after its own failed IV. Tony Brueski lays out why a state that can't do this keeps doing it, and the three-word defense it offered on September 30.

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Jury selection in the Sandra Birchmore murder trial began October 6 in federal court in Boston, where Matthew Farwell faces charges of killing a witness and causing the death of her unborn child. He has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty, and a conviction carries a mandatory life sentence.

The paternity test in this case excluded Farwell. Prosecutors say the man they accuse of strangling Sandra in her Canton apartment believed the baby was his because she told him so, and because his own messages through late 2020 and early 2021 read like a man who took it as true.

The physical case runs on timing. Farwell texted Sandra asking to come by. Six minutes later surveillance caught a hooded figure in a surgical mask entering her building at 9:14 p.m. He left at 9:43, and the health data on her phone recorded its last movement at 9:40. Prosecutors say his DNA was on the strap found around her neck, and they have conceded it was not under her fingernails.

Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski on what a juror does with an explanation that replaced the first one, and where the defense still has room.

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Caleb Flynn's father and mother wrote the judge before his sentencing for the murder of Ashley Flynn, and this episode reads both letters out loud with the trial record next to them. The letters are dated October 2, 2026. Mike Flynn, a Church of God pastor for twenty-two years, told Judge Jeannine Pratt that his son had "never even seen the inside of a courtroom until now" and that the family's pain was "unimaginable." He also told her that a corrections officer at the county jail had praised his parenting during a video call with Caleb. He asked her to "use clemency," which in Ohio is a power that belongs to the governor. Kim Flynn wrote that her son was "close to God and his family," that his awards "would be too numerous to mention," and that she knows he "has repented to his Lord and is remorseful for his decisions." She never names a decision. Three days earlier, after the verdict, she told a TV camera the evidence was "circumstantial junk" and that "He didn't do it." The two letters run more than five hundred words combined and never say Ashley, never mention the two granddaughters, and never use the words killed, shot or murder. Prosecutors asked the judge to weigh a different story about Caleb's character: their memo alleges he met privately with each daughter before her forensic interview and told the girls their words could mean life or death for him. The defense argued the jury never heard that claim and that it didn't match the interviews, and Pratt overruled the objection. She found that Caleb Flynn demonstrates no remorse and sentenced him to life without parole. His daughters' letters were read the same afternoon, and one of them is addressed "Dear Caleb."

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The Christa Pike botched execution on September 30 ended with two doses of pentobarbital administered and Pike still breathing, and the state insists its protocol was followed. The deeper problem is who Tennessee has left to work with. The American Medical Association and nursing groups direct their members away from executions. Drug makers producing pentobarbital for medical use will not sell it for this. A state with a death sentence to carry out still needs both.

What fills that gap is a supplier the public is not allowed to identify. Tennessee has argued that disclosure would expose suppliers to pressure and cost the state its source, and state law keeps parts of the process out of public records.

That argument has a history attached. Former U.S. Attorney Ed Stanton's 2022 review found Tennessee never gave the pharmacy that made and tested its execution chemicals a copy of the protocol, and that endotoxin testing required by that protocol never occurred before seven executions. Two officials were fired. Lee has now ordered a new Stanton review and stopped the state's remaining executions for the year.

Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski on where the line sits between protecting a supplier and hiding a failure.

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Before Tennessee tried to execute Christa Pike for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, Pike's lawyers put the state on notice in open court. Their January lawsuit identified a blood condition and small veins that they said would make an IV line hard to place and could fill her lungs with bloody froth. They offered an alternative: a 23-gauge butterfly needle, placed by trained medical staff. Tennessee's lawyers answered that blood draws had worked fine, her platelet levels were not a clotting problem, and pentobarbital works faster than pain.

Two doses went in on September 30. Pike was still breathing.

Her attorneys allege the lines failed and the drug leaked into surrounding tissue, injuring both arms. The Department of Correction says it followed its protocol step for step. On October 7 a Chancery Court judge ordered the state to preserve every physical item and every communication connected to the attempt, after Pike's lawyers argued they cannot prove what went wrong without the state's own records in hand.

Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski on the protections Pike's team should be demanding, what a second attempt would require, and what the strongest case looks like for commuting her sentence to life without parole.

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Full breakdown of Caleb Flynn’s sentencing for the murder of Ashley Flynn with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott. Flynn’s statement, his denial, his parents’ letters, and the prosecutors’ allegations about his daughters are all broken down. Flynn spoke for four minutes to his own family and never mentioned Ashley. He apologized for the affair, then denied killing his wife. His parents wrote the judge without writing Ashley’s name. Prosecutors allege he coached his daughters. One daughter answered back.

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Two days after the Los Angeles District Attorney took the death penalty off the table, Nick Reiner's lawyers filed papers saying he had received not even five dollars from his trust for jail commissary. The same filing argued that at least $325,017.49 of that trust came from Carl Reiner, the grandfather, so California's slayer statute shouldn't touch it. Chapter three of Self-Made Monster: The Nick Reiner Story runs from the morning of December 14, 2025 to that filing. It opens at 4:15 a.m. at a beachfront hotel in Santa Monica, where how Nick paid for one night is the first thing you'll hear.

The charges came on December 16: two counts of first-degree murder, a special circumstance of multiple murders, and an allegation that a knife was personally used. Nick was booked at 5:04 the morning after his arrest at Exposition and Vermont, where four police vehicles had boxed him in at 9:15 p.m. and he put his hands in the air. On July 20 a grand jury met in secret, and the indictment unsealed August 12 added murder by means of lying in wait. That allegation asks a jury to find concealment of purpose, watching and waiting, a surprise attack from a position of advantage, and a specific intent to kill. Nathan Hochman called it a profound betrayal by someone who was loved and trusted by the very people he is accused of killing. On September 15 he announced the state would not seek death, said he had spoken with Jake and Romy Reiner, and set the maximum at life without parole. There will be no trial in 2026.

Prosecutors say they hold more than forty terabytes of evidence. The grand jury transcripts are sealed at the siblings' request, and Jake Reiner was one of the witnesses who testified. Tony puts the state's version next to the defense's. Nick Reiner has pleaded not guilty.

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Before Caleb Flynn was sentenced to life without parole for the murder of Ashley Flynn, his parents filed letters asking the court for mercy. His father wrote that his son’s actions were not consistent with who he has always been. His mother said he has repented to his Lord. Neither parent wrote Ashley’s name. Neither mentioned the granddaughters. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to analyze what these letters reveal about the family that raised Caleb Flynn.

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Alex Murdaugh's defense team filed a motion in September 2026 claiming they never received the raw cell phone data that built the prosecution's timeline. The State responded with the defense's own paper trail — signed receipts, delivery memos, and an email where Jim Griffin called the State's handling "very accommodating."

That email, now Exhibit H, is part of a filing that accuses the defense of misrepresenting what evidence they had and when they had it. But the filing also cracks open the investigation itself — and what SLED did and didn't do with the evidence is worse than what the defense is arguing about.

Maggie Murdaugh's phone was recovered without a Faraday bag. The GPS data that could have tracked her phone's movement on the night she was killed was lost before it reached the lab. A SLED agent told a grand jury blood was on Alex's T-shirt. His own lab couldn't confirm it. Male DNA was found under Maggie's fingernails, and the one test designed to identify it was never performed.

Instead of building a case around those real investigative failures, the defense told the court Alex passed a polygraph. No polygraph on the murders ever happened. They cited an unverified ballistic rumor from a FITSNews YouTube segment.

The investigation had documented failures. The defense has documented credibility problems. Alex Murdaugh's voice is on the kennel video, and neither side can change that.

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At Caleb Flynn’s sentencing for the murder of Ashley Flynn, one of his daughters had a statement read to the court. Prosecutors allege Flynn told his daughters their statements could mean life or death and instructed them to deny being coached. One daughter’s response cut through everything. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to analyze what the coaching allegations mean for these children and what it takes for a child to break through.

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Caleb Flynn denied killing his wife at his own sentencing. The former worship leader had been convicted on all nine counts in the murder of Ashley Flynn in Tipp City, Ohio.

His daughters wrote impact statements that were read to the courtroom. The twelve-year-old addressed him as "Caleb" and told him she doesn't plan on visiting. The ten-year-old asked what her mother ever did to make him hate her so much.

Flynn spent his sentencing statement on himself. He told Ashley's parents he "failed" his wedding vows. A jury determined he ended his marriage with a 9mm handgun on February 16th.

His parents' letters praised his character and his faith. Neither mentioned Ashley by name. Judge Jeannine Pratt sentenced him to life without the possibility of parole.

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Caleb Flynn was sentenced to life without parole for the aggravated murder of his wife. At sentencing, Flynn addressed Ashley’s family for the first time. He apologized for the affair and the messages. He asked her brother to love his daughters. Then he told the judge he did not kill his wife and quoted a Bible verse. A jury convicted him on all nine counts. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to break down what Flynn admitted and what his denial tells us.

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A Miami County judge sentenced Caleb Flynn to life without parole for the aggravated murder of his wife, Ashley Flynn. Before the sentence, Flynn spoke. He addressed his daughters, his parents, and his brother — four minutes of a convicted man speaking only to his own family. He told his daughters they were the greatest joy of his life. He never once mentioned Ashley. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to break down the clips and what Flynn’s choices reveal.

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The full panel breakdown of the Caleb Flynn murder case. A jury convicted the former American Idol contestant and worship leader on all nine counts for the murder of his wife Ashley. Prosecutors argued he shot her in the back of the head while she slept and staged a home invasion in their Tipp City home. Their daughters were in the next room. Flynn had been having an 18-month affair with a 24-year-old church intern and exchanged over 107,000 messages with her. His mistress texted about wanting Ashley dead. He allegedly texted about killing her and not going to jail. Apps were deleted from his phone hours before the killing. The jury took approximately two hours. Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke cover the mistress’s civil liability, the psychology of murder over divorce, the jury’s deliberation, and the digital trail.

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Count back from the answer Rob Reiner gave a radio interviewer in September 2025 about his son, and the clean streak he described begins in 2019. That was the year someone inside the Reiner home called the police on Nick Reiner twice, and it runs straight through 2020, the year a judge found him gravely disabled by mental illness. Rob's answer, and why he framed it the way he did, opens chapter two of Self-Made Monster: The Nick Reiner Story.

The police logs are specific: a welfare check at 9:51 p.m. on February 25, 2019, and a call coded mental at 4:39 p.m. on September 27. The 2020 conservatorship was confidential by law and surfaced only in January 2026, when a newspaper reported it a month after the deaths. A licensed professional named Steven Baer was appointed to run Nick's treatment, and for one year the state could compel his medication and place him in a locked facility. People with knowledge of that treatment put the diagnosis at schizophrenia and later schizoaffective disorder. In 2021 the order expired, and the family went back to the only system it had ever had, which was itself.

That system had been absorbing the damage since 2016, when Being Charlie earned $32,964 worldwide and Nick moved into the guesthouse with a reported allowance of $10,000 a month. He told a podcast in 2018, laughing, about wrecking that guesthouse on uppers. A Thanksgiving guest described screaming, air freshener masking smells, and a household employee who threatened to quit. A friend recalled Nick making the housekeeper drive across town to bring him home to use his own bathroom.

Then came the photographs: Las Vegas in 2024, a red carpet in 2025, and a holiday party at Conan O'Brien's where sources say his parents brought him to keep an eye on him. Tony walks the nine years between a radio studio and a Sunday in December. Nick Reiner has pleaded not guilty.

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In the hours before Ashley Flynn was shot in her sleep, her husband’s phone started going dark. ChatGPT was uninstalled on February 15. GroupMe and Instagram were deleted shortly after 1 a.m. on February 16. Prosecutors argued Caleb Flynn was trying to erase the digital evidence of his 18-month affair: more than 107,000 messages with a 24-year-old church intern, AI-generated love songs, and data about how to permanently delete messages. The deletions were recovered. So were the messages, the songs, Apple Watch activity, and cell tower records. A jury convicted Flynn on all nine counts in approximately two hours. The defense said there was no gun and no direct evidence. Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke break down how the phone became the prosecution’s most powerful witness.

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Before sentencing Caleb Flynn, Judge Jeannine Pratt spoke directly to the former worship leader convicted of killing his wife. She told him he poses the highest risk to the community and called his actions abhorrent. She said the layers of deceit in the case are impossible to fathom. She reminded him that Ashley Flynn died in her own home and told him he could have simply left the marriage. Through greed and lust, she said, he chose to take Ashley's life instead. She told him he was the one who was supposed to protect his children and that he shattered their lives. She asked him one question the court said it could not answer and then delivered his sentence. Flynn was convicted on all nine counts for shooting Ashley in the back of the head while she slept and staging a break-in. The defense has filed notice of appeal.

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A jury convicted Caleb Flynn on every count in approximately two hours. The prosecution had no murder weapon, no gunshot residue on the defendant, and no fingerprints linking him to the shooting. What they had was digital evidence: more than 107,000 text messages between Flynn and his 24-year-old mistress, cell phone location data, Apple Watch activity, apps deleted from his phone hours before the killing, and two AI-generated love songs. Prosecutors argued Flynn shot his wife Ashley in the back of the head while she slept in their Tipp City home and staged the scene as a home invasion. Their daughters were sleeping nearby. The defense called no witnesses. Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke break down what the jury saw that made the circumstantial case overwhelming and why the verdict came so fast.

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In 2017, Ken Urker made a choice that would follow him for the rest of his life. He watched an HBO documentary about Gypsy Rose Blanchard — a woman serving ten years in Missouri for her part in killing her mother — and he decided to write her a letter.

The correspondence turned into visits at Chillicothe Correctional Center. He proposed in October 2018. She said yes from behind glass. He’d never known her outside a visiting room.

He broke it off ten months later, citing outside opinion and influence. He’d listened to a podcast. People around him had told him the kindest move was to step back and let her figure out who she was. He let them make the decision. His mother says it wrecked him.

Three years passed. Gypsy married a Louisiana teacher, Ryan Anderson, inside the prison in 2022. She walked out December 28, 2023, Lifetime cameras rolling from her first morning of freedom. Three months after release, she and Ryan were done. Within days, she and Ken had matching tattoos.

Ken left Dallas for Louisiana. Her parole kept them from sharing a roof. He’d moved away from his entire family for a woman whose life was a television production.

Their daughter Aurora was born December 28, 2024 — the one-year anniversary of Gypsy’s release. By the following year, Ken was drinking heavily. He attended at least one AA meeting. By late summer 2026, he was living alone in Raceland.

Deputies entered his apartment on October 1, 2026. He was 34 years old. On the nightstand: a holstered handgun, a syringe, and two shot glasses.

Before the coroner looked at him, Gypsy called People magazine and TMZ. His sister Autumn went live on TikTok. Both claimed their version of who Ken was. Ken wasn’t there for his.

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Caleb Flynn had legal options. Divorce. Separation. He chose to kill his wife, prosecutors argued. A jury convicted the former American Idol contestant and worship leader on all nine counts for the murder of Ashley Flynn. Prosecutors said he shot Ashley in the back of the head while she slept in their Tipp City home and staged the scene as a home invasion. Their daughters were sleeping nearby. Flynn had been carrying on an 18-month affair with a 24-year-old church intern. In more than 107,000 texts, he allegedly wrote about hating his wife and trying to figure out how to kill her and not go to jail. The jury took about two hours. Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke break down the psychology of a man who compartmentalized everything and the arrogance it takes to think you can stage a murder and walk free.

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Caleb Flynn was convicted of aggravated murder for shooting his wife Ashley in her sleep and staging the scene as a home invasion. His mistress, 24-year-old Alleigha Botner, has not been charged. In testimony, Botner read aloud from more than 107,000 messages between them. She texted Flynn that she wanted Ashley dead. When Flynn allegedly wrote about hiring someone to take Ashley out, Botner replied “so tempting,” according to her testimony. Botner also admitted she coached Flynn on deleting data from his devices, destroyed messages after the killing, and lied to the FBI. Ohio eliminated alienation of affection as a civil claim. The question is whether the texts and the cover-up support a wrongful death or civil conspiracy claim. Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke break down the evidence on both sides.

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One week. Two stories the true crime world cannot stop talking about. Ken Urker — Gypsy Rose Blanchard's partner — found dead on his birthday in Raceland, Louisiana. Deputies documented a handgun, syringe, and drug paraphernalia. Blanchard was already giving People magazine exclusives before the autopsy was done. In Tennessee, the state sent the same doctor back into the chamber for Christa Pike after he failed Tony Carruthers' execution months earlier. Two lethal injections failed. Pike tried to help the IV team. Slemmer's mother watched. Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski cover both across four segments — from the psychology of seizing a media narrative before the investigation is done, to the institutional behavior of a state that told a court the execution doctor's qualifications did not matter.

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Nick Reiner described himself, at 22, as a spoiled white rich kid from a Hollywood family. He said he chose homelessness in Maine, New Jersey and Texas over treatment programs that weren't run his way. He said he stole OxyContin from a sick old woman, and he said the persona that cost his parents 17 or 18 rehab stays was one he picked on purpose. All of that is on tape. What his rehab roommate knew the moment the news broke from Brentwood is where Self-Made Monster: The Nick Reiner Story begins.

Danny Svilar shared a room with Nick at a Malibu treatment center in 2009, when both were 15, and he was there over a shopping addiction. Svilar says the room cost roughly $60,000 a month, that Nick went after another patient and tried to get physical with him, and that the way Nick talked about his parents after lights out was chilling. Rob and Michele Reiner, he says, never missed a family group.

Chapter one follows the money and the people who spent it. Around 2011 Nick met Matt Elisofon in yet another facility, and the two started writing a show in longhand about the people they'd met in rehab. Michele told Rob to make it, and Castle Rock put up around $3 million for Being Charlie, with Nick Robinson as the son and Cary Elwes as a cold father running for governor. When public radio's Scott Simon asked Nick whether the character he'd built on himself was hard to like, Nick said probably so. The Hollywood Reporter found two warring agendas in one movie. It premiered in Toronto on Nick's 22nd birthday, the same year his parents told a newspaper that the counselors had called their son a liar and a manipulator, and that believing them had been the mistake.

Tony takes the first 22 years of the Nick Reiner case and asks who, in all that time, got anything back. Nick Reiner has pleaded not guilty.

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She tried to help. According to her attorneys, Christa Pike cooperated with the IV team during her own execution on September 30, guiding them toward a usable vein. They still failed. Two doses of pentobarbital. Arms swollen, burned, and blistered. Pike still breathing. In or near the witness room, Colleen Slemmer's mother May Martinez reportedly watched thirty-one years of waiting collapse. Corrections officers and paramedics watched the procedure fall apart around them. One paramedic allegedly bent a needle at ninety degrees. Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski examine the human cost on every side — what this kind of failure does to the condemned, to the families still waiting for justice, and to the people the state ordered into that room.

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At Caleb Flynn's sentencing hearing in Troy, Ohio, the former worship leader told the court he did not kill his wife. Then his own daughters' words were read to the room. One told him the least he could do was admit it. She said Ashley Flynn was the best thing that ever happened to him and that he threw it away for a girl half his age. She ended by telling him she will not be visiting. The other addressed him as Daddy and told him every choice was his — the affair, leaving his children, killing their mother. Ashley's sister said he shattered a family that trusted him. Ashley's parents forgave him and asked for the maximum punishment. Flynn was convicted on all nine counts for shooting Ashley in her sleep and staging a fake break-in. The defense plans to appeal.

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