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Did Lonoke County Cops Lose Aaron Spencer's Evidence to Protect Their Own Sheriff?
Aaron Spencer killed the man who was accused of hurting his daughter. The system charged him with murder. And now a judge has found that the people investigating him may have destroyed the one piece of evidence that could have told the whole story. The dashcam SD card from Michael Fosler's truck was most likely recording when Spencer pulled that trigger. It could have shown exactly what happened — whether Fosler was armed, whether Spencer acted in self-defense, whether the encounter unfolded the way Spencer described. Instead of preserving that evidence, investigators handled it differently from everything else at the scene, violated their own department's procedures, and lost it. Judge Ralph Wilson didn't use soft language. He wrote that the pattern of failures gave "the appearance of a coverup." He called the conduct "so egregious" that the entire murder prosecution had to be dismissed. Not reduced, not retried — dismissed. The part that makes this feel personal: Aaron Spencer was running for sheriff against the man whose deputies handled that evidence. He won the Republican primary while still facing a murder charge, beating incumbent John Staley. The agency that lost the SD card is the same agency whose boss Spencer beat at the ballot box. The original judge on the case was removed twice by the Arkansas Supreme Court. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer and retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke join Tony Brueski to answer the question this community has been asking: when everything points in one direction — when the politics, the evidence failures, and the court's own findings all line up — who has the authority to hold these investigators accountable, and will anyone actually do it? Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #AaronSpencer #LonokeCounty #MichaelFosler #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #JenniferCoffindaffer #RobinDreeke #CoverupAllegations #EvidenceLost #ArkansasCrime
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