In this episode of True Crime News The Sidebar Podcast: Beth Karas joins host Joshua Ritter to break down the biggest cases making headlines across the nation. They discuss the delayed release of ‘Slender Man’ assailant Morgan Geyser as mounting concerns force a judge to rethink her potential institutional departure, the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa, and jurors’ deadlocked deliberations in the trial of Jeffrey Ferguson, a former judge accused of fatally shooting his wife.
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Fictional character? Be careful.
Aliens. They're everywhere….
Just this past year, Miss Gregg, I believe she was 13 years old, from MS, was sentenced to LWOP for ending her Mother's life. I feel that was too excessive and she should have first been given extensive mental health care and counseling before LWOP should be allowed to be her sentence.
When your face pops up on my screen, it never fails to bring me a smile. These days, finding smiles are hard to find with my poor health.
Thank you, Josh ❤
That makes no sense his wife would run upstairs to get his meds if he was having a heart attack.. she would call 911 wtf. Also my gpas pacemaker sends signals directly to his care team so that's pretty weird this guy either had no care team for signals to send to or his care team didn't care to call 911 to his house or something when his heart wasn't beating for literal days..
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Is this guy joking??? She was reading a horror story that she wanted to bring to life.. that’s why she’s there in the first place. Her reading that material AND having a mental issue is completely unacceptable and should not even be allowed. PERIOD.
I wonder if Mr Hackman had a fatal heart attack, his wife found him then she took pills because she didn’t want to live without him & the dog stayed with her then died from dehydration or consumed some of the medication.
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No NOT the Ukranian woman . She has been around promoting herself forever and is extremely inbelievable even when she msnaged tp ' discover ' her prove of her biologicall Mother in a very quiet green field in that war torn country Something as with much from that area that is distinctly questionable ….. .
I thought I had read a while ago that they were letting Morgan the Slender Man Stabber back into the public. Anyways. Glad that it is not the case.
Love the podcast!
Judge… I think they should do an alcohol enhancement just like they do with guns. A gun used during a crime adds time, so the same should be done for committing a crime under the influence of alcohol!!!!! Alcohol makes people change!!! I've seen it too many times!!! One person I knew, as soon as he got one swallow of alcohol, he was a completely different person!
The host looks like he could be Chris Hanson’s long-lost brother!
I am afraid 😱 that if the "Slender Man" girl 👧 is let out she could reoffend due to her mental state. The Gene Hackman, Wife & Dog 🐕 situation has me baffled in different scenarios of what could have happened. The front door being found open when the grounds keeper got there is mysterious to me? Now, the judge 👨⚖️ shooting his wife does not sit right with me. They must have had previous issues before this one happened that people are not aware of. He knew whether he was drunk 🥴 that the gun was loaded when he pulled it up and shot her. Whether he was intended on scaring her and was going to shoot a warning ⚠️ shot and was so drunk 🥴 that he actually ended up hitting her, IDK 🤷♀️. The calmness he was has me unsure??
I worked at a psych facility. Something as simple as a S. King novel is VERY serious when you have dozens of mentally fragile ppl housed together. These rules didn't come abt arbitrarily. The snowball is real.
where is the justice in this godforsaken dump we call earth ?!!!!!!😡
The Gene Hackman death really is curious. What doesn't fit for me about the "heart attack and fall" theory is that one of the dogs was found dead in the bathroom next to his wife. I do think they were poisoned, intentionally or not who knows, and this poison was either inhaled or possibly ingested. It's sad that they were lying dead there for 10 days before being found 💔 for the family's sake I hope they find the answers. Love your shows Josh!
I MEANT HER.DO NOT LET HER OUT.UR PUTTING OTHERS IN DANGER.
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LA!
Nice to see Ana in the commercials, but when is she coming back for her stories? Miss her.
My thoughts : Mr. Hackman has a cardiac event and collapses. The dog starts making noise, barking, very agitated due to master on floor. Wife hears the commotion and finds gene on the floor and the dog going nuts. She grabs the dog because he's pawing at Gene and takes him with her by the collar to get genes pills in the bathroom. The dog is upset, wife is upset and shaking. She's trying to get the pills open while dealing with dog and she herself shaking and she spills the pills. If the dog was indeed in the closet, she probably put him in there while she's trying to deal with the situation. Then she has a cardiac event. If he was beside her, she probably knocked the heater over while struggling with the pills and the dog and she either had a cardiac event or she falls and strikes her head with a fatal blow and then the dog eats the pills and passes. If the dog was in the closet, he passed from dehydration and starvation.
Oh my goodness I still didn’t realize you were doing True Crime News. I’ve known you from Anna Garcia thank you for this.
I read Steven king as a teenager. Then read ‘It’ at 16. I had insomnia for 3 months straight. Them being exposed to his novels at 12 and then getting that diagnosis is scary. I mean what they had read the shining!!! Would there have been a blood bath somewhere? Obviously one of them hasn’t been rehabilitated enough.
No way are other people safe from her….