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Bill Gothard reduced the French Revolution to a lesson about disobedience. The Wisdom Booklets — the Duggar family’s curriculum — taught children that all authority is divine, that questioning it invites destruction, and that the separation of church and state is rebellion against God. The law sections framed Old Testament codes as binding civil law. The Character First program carried Gothard’s ideology into public schools without disclosure. Arkansas prisons adopted his teachings. And the man who built a system demanding absolute submission was accountable to no one. We go inside the history the Wisdom Booklets taught — and the authority structure they were designed to protect.
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Ten feet. That's the distance between where Victoria Heuermann sat as a child watching television and playing video games, and the room where her father strangled, murdered, and dismembered women over the course of nearly two decades. Ten feet between a normal childhood and a crime scene. She didn't know it then. She knows it now. And she went back to that house, walked into that basement room, lit sage, and tried to cleanse the space where Rex Heuermann carried out the worst acts imaginable — acts she now has to reconcile with every memory she has of growing up in that home. The Peacock documentary captured Victoria Heuermann in a way that no true crime series has ever captured the child of a serial killer. Raw. Unfiltered. Cycling between anger and grief and a kind of eerie composure that comes from spending two years mentally preparing for a truth you already suspected but couldn't say out loud. She listed her ages against each murder. She was three, six, ten, twelve, thirteen. She mapped her childhood milestones against her father's kill timeline. And then she forgave him. 
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins me to go deep on Victoria Heuermann's psychological experience — the weight of carrying a serial killer's identity, the impossible act of rewriting childhood memories, and what happens when a young woman's only path forward requires forgiving the unforgivable.
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She was adopted and never felt wanted. Assaulted at sixteen. Attempted to take her own life before she was out of her teens. And then a man named Rex Heuermann showed up and said move in, I'll handle everything. For a woman who had never once felt safe in her own skin, that offer wasn't romance — it was survival. And it sealed her fate for the next three decades. The Peacock documentary on Rex Heuermann gave us something the courtroom never would have — a raw, unfiltered look at the woman standing behind the Gilgo Beach Killer. 
Asa Ellerup didn't just live with a serial killer. She built her entire identity around him. The family therapist said it plainly: as long as Rex told Asa he was innocent, there was no reaching her. His words overwrote reality itself. So what happens when reality finally breaks through? What happens when the man who was your entire foundation looks you in the eye and says he killed eight women — some of them in your home? 
Psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott breaks down every layer of Asa Ellerup's psychology in this conversation. We get into the trauma history that made her vulnerable, the specific mechanisms Rex used to maintain control without her ever recognizing it, and the question the therapist raised that haunts this entire case — whether Asa will ever truly let Rex go, even now that she knows exactly what he is. This is one of the most psychologically complex figures in modern true crime. 
Shavaun doesn't flinch from any of it.
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At 9:27 PM on February 1, 2021, Matthew Farwell entered Sandra Birchmore’s apartment building. At 9:56 PM, he left. Twenty-nine minutes. Sandra was never seen alive again. When her body was found three days later, she was wearing the same clothes. Federal prosecutors allege that inside those twenty-nine minutes, Farwell strangled Sandra and her unborn son, then staged the scene.
The forensic evidence prosecutors have assembled is devastating. Farwell’s DNA was found on the duffel bag strap used to strangle Sandra. His sperm cells were found in her underwear, contradicting his claim that he hadn’t been intimate with her in months. Sandra’s right clavicle showed an injury that occurred while she was alive, matching the buckle behind her head — evidence prosecutors say proves she could not have died in the position she was found. A broken pink flamingo necklace Sandra regularly wore was discovered tangled with her hair on the bedroom floor. Her phone recorded its final movements while Farwell was still inside the apartment.
Then there’s the reenactment. At a private gathering after Sandra’s death, an inebriated Farwell demonstrated how she supposedly died, positioning himself beneath a doorknob. The details he described had not been publicly revealed. He knew because, prosecutors allege, he staged the scene himself.
DNA testing later confirmed Farwell was not the biological father of Sandra’s unborn son. But both he and Sandra believed he was — and prosecutors say that belief is what drove him to kill her. Every piece of physical evidence points to homicide. And yet, for years, it was ruled something else entirely.
This is Part 3 of a five-part series on the Sandra Birchmore case.
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This is the story Bob Motta has been waiting three years to tell — and he's telling it here first. The criminal defense attorney and Defense Diaries podcast host spent sixteen months investigating the Don Studey case on the ground in Iowa. He made contact with Lucy Studey-McKiddy, the daughter who alleges her father was the Green Hollow Killer, and spent over a hundred hours vetting her claims. 
He drove to Green Hollow when the FBI moved on the property, arrived in the middle of the night, and started documenting everything on TikTok — going viral in real time. The next morning he talked his way past a federal checkpoint in a rental car that looked like a cop cruiser and watched from the fence line as agents core-drilled a well to eighty-five feet. 
A deputy on the fence line dropped a bombshell — Gacy's first victim Tim McCoy was from Green Hollow and related to the Studey family. Bob had just finished thirty-six episodes on Gacy. Lucy never mentioned the connection. In the small towns around Green Hollow, everybody wanted to talk. 
Don was the boogeyman — the man parents warned children about for decades. Bob uncovered alleged ties to the Kansas City mob and an unsolved supper club robbery. Lucy's sister Susan drunk-texted Bob throughout calling Lucy a liar. Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Drake weighs in on trauma memory, credibility, and whether the numbers add up. The feds closed the case after three days. Lucy says they drilled the wrong well. The full conversation — first time anywhere.
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