What Was Lonoke County So Afraid Of in the Aaron Spencer Case?

**Tony Brueski** (0:00)
This is Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski. Here now, Tony Brueski.

**Tony Brueski** (0:07)
Why would anyone cover for a man facing over 40 criminal counts involving a child? That's the question. That's the only question that matters now in the Aaron Spencer case. Because the judge just said we're not doing this shit. Let me be very direct with you. I don't think the answer is very complicated here. I think the answer is obvious. I think it's the answer that nobody in an official capacity wants to say out loud, but we're going to get there. A judge in Arkansas just threw out the second degree murder case against Aaron Spencer. Your voices worked.
All of it, the kerfuffle that's been created, the attention that was put on a corrupt local police system has been seen, has been heard and a judge said, cover up.
Let that sit for a minute.
Cause this case, well, Aaron Spencer's prosecution is now over. Thank God. This story is not. We are not going to let the folks who pursued this man for years and tried to put him behind bars for protecting his daughter. We're not letting those folks just get by.

**Tony Brueski** (1:58)
Oh, it's a smush. Okay.

**Tony Brueski** (1:59)
Well, you can move. You're going to be good now. Oh, we're ever going to like, like you did nothing. Like you weren't part of some sort of a cover up.
And we're going to get into all of this. What does it mean? What does a cover up actually mean in a case like this? Your thoughts I'd love in the comment section as we work our way through this. So the judge threw out Aaron Spencer's second degree murder charges, not on a technicality, not because of a filing deadline, because the judge, Special Circuit Court Judge Ralph Wilson Jr, looked at what Lowanoe County Law Enforcement did with the evidence in this case, and wrote in a formal order that their conduct showed a pattern of policy and procedure violations and gave the appearance of a cover up. He called what they did so egregious that the only appropriate remedy was to dismiss the entire prosecution. His exact words, dismissal, is an extraordinary and extreme remedy. And then he did it anyway, because the facts left him no choice. Let me make sure you understand how rare this is. Judges don't throw out murder cases. They especially don't throw out murder cases using the word cover up in their written order. That language was chosen. That language was deliberate. A sitting judge just told the state of Arkansas that the people who investigated this case didn't just fail. They appear to have actively corrupted the process. And the question I can't stop asking is why?
Why would they do that? Who benefits? Let me back up just enough to make sure everyone is on the same page here. October 2024, Aaron Spencer's 13 year old daughter is missing from her bedroom in the middle of the night. Spencer goes looking for her and finds her in the truck of a 67 year old man named Michael Fosler. Fosler was facing over 40 criminal counts, allegations involving Spencer's daughter that I'm not going to describe in detail because you can fill in the blanks and because this isn't about the specifics of what Fosler was accused of. It's about what happened after. Fosler was out on bond. Yeah, out on bond. The local system that the judge has now said there's an appearance of corruption is the same system that let him out on bond with 40 some charges against him. There was a no contact order and the child was in his truck after midnight. The same person he'd already been charged with doing this with. He came and kidnapped her from her home, a child.
Her dad, Aaron Spencer, like I said, noticed she was gone.
He's freaking out. They call 911 He gets in his truck and starts looking immediately. Wouldn't you if your daughter was missing? You know, there was an active predator in the area that the local authority said, go on, we trust you.
Spencer found him, rammed his truck. There was a confrontation. Spencer fired. Fosler died at the scene. Thank God. A predator removed from the planet by hero dad, Aaron Spencer and Arkansas, at least the folks in this jurisdiction in Lowentown County, said, Criminal, how dare you take away one of our prized child predators?
You must pay.
Oh, you wanna talk about this case? You want anybody to hear about this case? We're gonna gag order. Nobody can talk about it. We're not gonna give any reason why you can't talk about this, why this can't be investigated further or by outside sources very deeply. Huh, I wonder why that is. You know, birds of a feather, folks like Fosler, they tend to travel in packs. They tend to do this to children in groups. They tend to share their material. They're not usually lone wolves. So who else in Lowentown County is in on the take?