From Friendship to Murder: The Sheriff and the Judge

Join us as we unravel a disturbing case that has rocked Kentucky's legal community: the murder of Judge Kevin Mullins by his long-time friend, Sheriff Sean Mickey Steins. This episode peels back the layers on their complex relationship, the suspicious exchange of cell phones, and the chilling events that followed a seemingly ordinary lunch. We also investigate the potential motive behind this tragic killing—a sordid sex scandal involving deputies and female prisoners. Plus, uncover the latest updates on a lawsuit against Deputy Ben Fields for rape and misconduct, and how this scandal might be connected to the judge's untimely death.

Memory lane isn't always a stroll; sometimes it's a jolt. I reflect on my first significant news memory—the release of the Iran hostages—and invite you to share yours. What major news story first made an impact on you? Your recollections and support mean everything to us. Tune in as we promise more engaging discussions on Glamour, pop culture, and front-page news. Thank you for being part of our community, and we look forward to sharing more captivating stories in our upcoming episodes.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Murder and Weirdness in Kentucky
• 14:30 Childhood Memories of News Stories

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:19

Hello, good morning, happy Monday. We are at the rear end of September, we are almost over with September. Last Monday here in September, okay, we have a few stories today Murder and Weirdness. How about that that start with an update to the sex scandal investigated as possible motive for judge's murder, allegedly by sheriff powell, hours after having lunch together. This is bizarro world. This is so bizarre. Why I don't? Their friends, their buddies, their pals? They're having lunch together, they swap phones and then the next thing you know, the judge is dead, shot by the sheriff who. They were just having lunch together. It's weird, I don't get it. But here's an update. Try to stay with me, because it's. I had to read it a couple of times and I had to read it a couple of times and I'm still confused.

Speaker 1: 1:36

The shocking murder of a Kentucky judge, allegedly by his sheriff's sheriff pal, is being investigated as a possible sex scandal. Cops said Sunday. Letcher County Sheriff Sean Mickey Steins was decades long friends with Judge Kevin Mullins. Ok, so we have Steins is the sheriff Mullins as the judge and they even had lunch together on September 19th, hours before he's accused of walking into the judge's courtroom and shooting him eight times, eight times Surveillance video from inside the chambers showed the men switching cell phones and looking at something on them Before the sheriff walked over and shot dead. The sheriff sources told the Mountain Eagle Sorry, my eyes are watering. Okay, our investigators seized the two cell phones and they're being analyzed.

Speaker 1: 2:25

Kentucky State Police Trooper Matt Gayhart told the Daily Mail on Sunday. Asked if the investigation was also considering a possible sex scandal as a motive, the trooper confirmed absolutely, we are not ruling out anything as a possible motive. Gayhart did not elaborate on the sex scandal in question, however. The sheriff had days been deposed in a lawsuit filed by two women, one of whom alleged that a deputy forced her to have sex inside Mullins chambers for six months in exchange for staying out of jail. All right, I am trying. I think I'm seeing something unfold here. I think I'm seeing something unfold. Let's read this again Gayhart. Now who is Gayhart again, who is Gayhart? Okay, gayhart is the Kentucky State Trooper. He's investigating this. Gayhart did not elaborate on the sex scandal in question. However, the sheriff I guess who had shot this is the sheriff who shot the judge had days been deposed in a lawsuit filed by two women, one of whom alleged that a deputy forced her to have sex inside Mullen's chambers for six months in exchange in staying out of jail. Didn't name him, didn't name the sheriff, but it says a deputy. The lawsuit accuses the sheriff of deliberate indifference in failing to adequately train and supervise the deputy, ben Fields, who pleaded guilty to raping the female prisoner while she was on home incarceration. All right, so see, it's getting confusing now. At first you're saying that the sex scandal, the sexual, whatever it is took place inside the chamber of the judge's chambers. Now we're saying this totally different person, ben fields, who's a deputy of raping the female prisoner while she was on home incarceration. Fields was sentenced this year to six months in jail and then six and a half years on probation for rape, sodomy, perjury and tampering with a prisoner's monitoring device. The Mountain Eagle reported Three charges related to a second woman were dismissed because she is now dead. Oh my gosh. Didn't say why she's dead or how she died.

Speaker 1: 5:07

All right, steins fired fields. Steins is the sheriff, remember? So he fired fields, who succeeded him as mullins bailiff for conduct, for conduct unbecoming. After the lawsuit was filed in 2022. The courier journal reported at the time Remember, mullins is the sheriff. I mean, mullins is the judge. So Steins. The sheriff fired Fields, the deputy. All right, steins and Mullins Now the sheriff. We're back to the sheriff and the judge had been friends for 20 years. Before the murder, stein's had served as mullins bailiff before becoming sheriff in 2018. Okay, I never do there being any kind of friction between them till it came to this. We all got good teased. We all got along good teased each other. Let your circuit clerk, mike Watts, told the local newspaper. Mullins and Steins even worked together on drug addiction and recovery projects that provided resources and education in a region racked with opioid opioid oh my gosh, I can't pronounce the word opioid epidemic. The sheriff reportedly came out of the courtroom with his hands up after the shooting. However, he pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.

Speaker 1: 6:31

Interesting, okay, what in the world? Let's see. Let's go see if we can go. Click on one of these links. Let's see. Here we go. Told the Daily Mail. I don't want to go to the Daily Mail. No, hold on y'all, I'm sorry. I want to go to the daily mail. No, oh, hold on y'all, I'm sorry. I want to go to the local paper mountain eagle. Here we go. Let's see what the mountain eagle has to say. Where do we go from here. No one among us could have ever imagined our sheriff would murder our district judge. What's next for letcher county?

Speaker 1: 7:05

Two friends with seemingly no animosity between them, both with important jobs and both well thought of in their communities, but last Thursday something broke. A 20 year old friendship became came to a devastating end. Okay, we know all that. Okay, what in the world, hide reader? I'm sorry. Well, that's all I've got here. That's oh what. I will try to investigate this more and bring you more later. We need to move on, though. Look here I'm bringing you another long island murder. What is happening in long Island? There's another one. This is so many. Now Long Island needs their own murder podcast.

Speaker 1: 7:53

Long Island man brutally beat, stabbed pal to death after boozy night in Hamptons before texting handyman to clean up the mess. Oh my gosh. A Long Island man fatally beat his pal in Hampton In a Hamptons. Oh my gosh. A Long Island man fatally beat his pal in a Hampton's home. Oh my gosh, in a Hampton. I cannot talk this morning. I cannot read. A Long Island man fatally beat his pal in a Hampton's home after a night of heavy drinking, then texted his handyman to help clean up the mess.

Speaker 1: 8:30

Police said jeremy allen, who is 43, was busted when cops found the pummeled and stabbed body of his friend, 43 year old christopher hahn, stashed under a tarp on the suspect's back patio after the booze-fueled attack Saturday morning. According to police, get this, get this Authority said Allen and his drinking buddy were discussing their next 12-step program when they got into a heated dispute which ended with Alan beating the victim before stabbing him in the head and killing him. Oh, there's a bit, get that, there's more. Wait till I get to this one part.

Speaker 1: 9:18

Suffolk County prosecutors Alina tomorrow told South Hampton town justice Adam Grossman during the proceeding that there is a video footage of the vicious attack and that it is brutal and heinous to watch. There's a video footage. Wow, hahn and Allen, who has been charged with drunk driving several times since 2007, according to Newsday, were allegedly pounding down drinks when they got into an altercation that grew more violent. Allen's lawyer said in court Okay, here we go. This is the part. You're not going to believe this. I think it's a typo, but who knows? An enraged Allen allegedly beat Han for as long as six hours before prosecutors said he pulled out a large knife and stabbed handyman saw the bloodied body. He allegedly told Allen that he had to go buy some bleach to do the job and instead called Southampton town police, who got to the scene shortly after 10 am. Good for the handyman. Wow, wow.

Speaker 1: 10:41

What is wrong with people? I think they're putting something in Long Island's water supply as some kind of government experiment, because these people in Long Island have lost their ever loving minds. My goodness, we're going to end with a Kanye West story from page six. What is wrong with people? I don't know if it's the celebrity in them, if it's the weirdo-ness, if it's something else, I don't know. Kanye West's alterations to Malibu Mansion labeled dumb by its new owner. Yeah, yeah, I guess. So Wait till you hear this.

Speaker 1: 11:21

Kanye West's alterations to his former Malibu mansion have been slammed as dumb by its new owner. After buying the Tadeo Ando designed property for $57 million three years ago, kanye completely gutted it in anticipation of extensive renovations, but was recently forced to sell it at $36 million loss. Yeah, because you know he's in a bunch of trouble. It was snapped up by California-based real estate crowdfunding firm Bellwood Investments, and CEO Beau Belmont told the Los Angeles Times that was a really dumb move, really no purpose for it. Well, let's get to it. What did he do to it? He single-handedly destroyed this architectural masterpiece. My goal is to make it as though kanye was never there. The house will be restored right back to what it was good. Kanye removed the windows, doors, electricity and plumbing in the house and had plans to turn the stairs into a slide, the floor into trampolines and camouflage the outside of the house.

Speaker 1: 12:31

What in the world this guy, these weird, they're all weirdos, are they not? You can go finish reading that. There's really not much more to it. But what's wrong with people? Why are they just mentally out? They are mentally checked out. I would like you to go over to my YouTube channel. Just search Carol Marks. Go find my YouTube channel. I think I've put a couple of links out there already.

Speaker 1: 13:01

On X and I interviewed or had a chat with a gal named Allie Snyder. She's also on X. She's very outspoken about the trans cult and everything that's happening erasure of women and she speaks out a lot. She even lost her job over. Actually, they gave her a choice of going like through retraining, apologizing, all this stuff, or taking a severance package, and she chose to take the severance package and I'm like good for her, um, but she used to be in California. She has spoken in front of her school board uh, large school board members and all of this but she's now in Oklahoma. She got to meet Kelly J and speak at one of Kelly J's Let Women Speak when Kelly J was over here in America. Allie Snyder also runs the Let Women Speak merchandise shop here in America, big supporter of Party of Women, big supporter of women in general.

Speaker 1: 14:10

So we had like an hour's worth of conversation, very good information and I highly recommend it. And she did a lot of talking. I hardly did any of the talking, which is what I wanted her to do. It was like a takeover type thing. I asked her and I'm glad she can speak all day long. I love it.

Speaker 1: 14:30

All right, so please go check that out and also share it if you wouldn't mind sharing that particular episode content, whatever you want to call it. All right, I guess I need a question of the day. All right, I guess I need a question of the day. Okay, what is the very first major story that you heard of as a kid or growing up on the news? What is one of the major stories that you remember as a kid, growing up, that you heard on the news mine was probably the release of the Iran hostages would probably be my very first memory. As I'm looking back on my childhood, teenager years, that would probably be the very first major news story that I remember the release of the Iran hostages. Okay, I have to go and I appreciate you listening and sharing my content. Please continue to listen. I appreciate y'all and have a great Monday. My name is Carol and these are my remarks on Glamour, pop Culture and Front Page News. I will be back again tomorrow, god willing. Thank you, have a great day. Bye.