Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A Letcher County, Kentucky sheriff walked into a district judge's chambers, closed the door, and shot him — on the judge's own security camera, the one the judge had asked to have installed. That's the part everybody already knows.
What this episode covers is the part that came out after: a 2022 report to the Kentucky Attorney General that went nowhere, a deputy already convicted of raping a woman in that same courthouse, and now multiple women on record alleging Judge Kevin Mullins ran the Letcher County courthouse like his own private operation — trading leniency, trading freedom, for sex.
I'm not here to repeat what every other outlet already said about the shooting.
I'm here to ask the question a reporter won't: how does a man run that for years, in a county this small, and nobody with the power to stop it does anything about it — until his own sheriff decides to end it with a gun?
We'll also clear up something most people get wrong: "mandated reporter" laws only cover children. So who actually had a legal duty to report this, and why didn't it work? We break down the real rules — federal jail\-staff reporting requirements, Kentucky's attorney ethics rules — and ask how corruption like this survives for years when, on paper, the system was already built to stop it.
We'll walk the full timeline, talk about what grooming looks like when it's got a badge or a robe attached to it, and get you caught up on exactly where the criminal case against Sheriff Stines stands right now — venue just got moved out of Letcher County, bail just got denied, and there's still no trial date.
This is Hillbilly Crime. I'm not a reporter. I'm an investigator, and I live twenty minutes from where this happened.
#HillbillyCrime #MickeyStines #JudgeMullins #LetcherCounty #KentuckyCrime #TrueCrime #Appalachia #CourtroomShooting #JudicialCorruption #TrueCrimeCommunity #KentuckyJustice #WhitesburgKY
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A Letcher County, Kentucky sheriff walked into a district judge's chambers, closed the door, and shot him — on the judge's own security camera, the one the judge had asked to have installed. That's the part everybody already knows.
What this episode covers is the part that came out after: a 2022 report to the Kentucky Attorney General that went nowhere, a deputy already convicted of raping a woman in that same courthouse, and now multiple women on record alleging Judge Kevin Mullins ran the Letcher County courthouse like his own private operation — trading leniency, trading freedom, for sex.
I'm not here to repeat what every other outlet already said about the shooting.
I'm here to ask the question a reporter won't: how does a man run that for years, in a county this small, and nobody with the power to stop it does anything about it — until his own sheriff decides to end it with a gun?
We'll also clear up something most people get wrong: "mandated reporter" laws only cover children. So who actually had a legal duty to report this, and why didn't it work? We break down the real rules — federal jail\-staff reporting requirements, Kentucky's attorney ethics rules — and ask how corruption like this survives for years when, on paper, the system was already built to stop it.
We'll walk the full timeline, talk about what grooming looks like when it's got a badge or a robe attached to it, and get you caught up on exactly where the criminal case against Sheriff Stines stands right now — venue just got moved out of Letcher County, bail just got denied, and there's still no trial date.
This is Hillbilly Crime. I'm not a reporter. I'm an investigator, and I live twenty minutes from where this happened.
#HillbillyCrime #MickeyStines #JudgeMullins #LetcherCounty #KentuckyCrime #TrueCrime #Appalachia #CourtroomShooting #JudicialCorruption #TrueCrimeCommunity #KentuckyJustice #WhitesburgKY
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