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Speaker 3: I Hey everyone, and welcome back to Bloody and Gola,
a podcast one and forty two years in the making,
the complete story of America's bloodiest prison. I'm Jim Chapman,
and I have an announcement to make. If you follow
Bloody Angla podcast on Facebook, you already are aware of this.
If you do not, I'm going to read a post
I put shortly after dropping episode one of the Brandon
Scott Laverne podcast last week, and then I'll provide a
little clarification and it reads as follows. To all who
read this, I need to provide an update on next
week's drop. This is lengthy, so bear with me. After
much thought in deliberation, I have made the decision to
suspend subsequent episodes of the Hunt for the Cajun Killer.
When I started this series, it was with nothing but
the best intent. I, like many others, had seen the
Dateline series when it first aired way back in twenty thirteen,
and my heart absolutely went out to the victims in
this case. My intent with the first episode of this
series was to put a face on a victim who
I personally felt got a little lost in the impending
media frenzy. Most people that have messaged me did not
even realize these two cases were related that were not
in the LAFE yet. A victims surround all true crime cases,
and I do my best to focus on putting a
human face on these victims. They come in many forms
and are on both sides of a crime. In this
particular series, what I wanted to do differently than any
other podcast on the subject was to focus on the
things I felt were not as well known or really
focused on the amazing job that law enforcement did, especially
as it relates to spotting those items in the back
of that white truck and finding a link. The leadership
displayed by Mickey Senick's sister, who, during what was a
horrific time for her and her family, was able to
organize search parties under unimaginable circumstances. Finally, the massive response
from the public, hundreds of volunteers, many who had never
met Mickey, just showing up doing whatever they could to help.
Those are the things I believe no one should ever forget.
I have a lot of love for the Cajun community
and people, so much so a married one shout out Arnerville, Louisiana.
I'm proud of the Cajun community as a whole, and
I wanted to spotlight it to the world. Unfortunately, to
tell that story, you have to tell the whole story.
I did not realize how against this the families directly
affected were. When you go into a project with the
best of intentions, you sometimes assume that everyone knows exactly
what you were doing and why you were doing it.
While I may disagree with some of the things that
were brought to my attention regarding podcasters who focus on
the true crime genre, intentions can vary from person to person.
I also feel the proper step in this very unique
situation is to respect the wishes of those who, even
to this day, are victims. My thoughts in prayers now
and will always be with the victims of violent crimes
and the families of those affected. I will provide a
more clear explanation on next Thursday's drop, which will focus
on a different subject. Thank you so much for your support,
And that was that Facebook post when I tell all
of you I was inside my own head for a
day and a half regarding what step to make in
this situation. I was it was not easy. I do
not take it lightly because there are things about this
case that I feel like need to be known. However,
after praying on it, I felt like this was the
right thing to do. That being said, every bit of
information that I referenced and going to reference can be
found online and if you'll go to the first episode,
we provide sources for everything we discuss and those sources
are linked in that first episode, which will stay up,
so you're welcome to go through that and learn the
story for yourself. Now, I had obviously planned to release
that second episode this week. That's obviously not going to
happen now, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to
bring you something today. Unfortunately, I was not left with
enough time to prepare what I would consider a good
episode to put out there that was brand new for
you of Bloody and Gola. But I'm going to give
you something and something that relates to prison now. I
am also host of Exposed Scandalous Files of the Elite,
a very different podcast asked in a lot of ways,
but some of these episodes directly relate to prison and
of course people that end up in prison. And one
of those is the episode that I'm bringing you today,
and it is about doctor Stephen Matthews, who was a
cardiologist and he was convicted in over a dozen sexual
assaults of victims he met on Hinge and Tender. It
was one of the most prolific sexual predator cases in
US history. And it was originally dropped on Exposed back
in September. So some of my audience here on Bloody
in Gola overlaps and some does not. So for those
of you that have not heard it, I'm going to
play that episode for you today. Now next week, Christmas week,
we will not have an episode of Blooding in Goola.
Dropping the day after Christmas is our typical drop day,
but I'm not going to drop an episode the day
after Christmas. So your next drop will be January second,
and it's going to be a brand new episode of
Bloody and Gola. I have something really good planned. I'm
not going to announce it yet, but I promise you you're
going to be into it, so thank you for understanding.
First of all those of you that put the unbelievably
kind messages on Facebook. I really appreciate it. I hope
you enjoyed this episode that I'm bringing you now, and
if you do, go check out Expose Scandalous Files of
the Elite. Give us a follow. So here it is
doctor Stephen Matthews dating apps. They are this generation's version
of the blind date. For the women who matched with
doctor Steven Matthews, they thought they had found the man
of their dreams, at least on paper. He was smart, attractive,
and wealthy. At just thirty six, he was one of
the top cardiologists in the entire state of Colorado. The
women who would meet with the young doctor were excited.
They could not wait to tell their closest friends how
the first date went. But it was what they could
not remember about that first date that was so shocking
and would change the lives of over a dozen women forever.
Welcome to Exposed Scandalous Files of the Elite.
Speaker 4: Unhinged Doctor Stephen Matthews. Hey everyone, and welcome back to
Exposed Scandalous Files of the Elite. I am your host,
Jim Chapman, thank you for joining me today. And before
we get into today's episode, I have a global celebrity
member from our Patreon that I need to shout out.
That is Miss Tiffany Lynn.
Speaker 3: Hubert and y'all. Tiffany is from Overland, Missouri, and I'm
a history buff and when it comes to y'all joining
the Patreon, I like to look at where you're coming from.
And if I'm not familiar with that particular town, I
like to google it can kind of check out the
history on it. And a couple of things I found
interesting about Overland, Missouri. Daniel Boone actually built a cabin.
There was a one bedroom cabin that he lived in.
And Overland is also the home of the National Military
Records Office, which had a huge fire in nineteen seventy three.
It destroyed like eighteen million records, making it the single
largest loss of government files in the history of the
United States. Some pretty interesting stuff. And thank you again,
Miss Tiffany for joining as a Global celebrity member. So
let's get into today's episode. And y'all, I'm telling you
this one is going to blow your mind. I'm going
to call it unhinged and you'll see why as we
go along in the story. Now, in my opinion, the
top profession in which trust is just absolutely paramount is
in the field of medicine, and specifically that of a
medical doctor. Now, not only does a medical doctor have
access to your most intimate history as far as your health,
but typically the trust is so great that your doctor
can pretty much tell you to take any drug on
God's green Earth to heal whatever it is you're in
the doctor's office for, and you're probably gonna take it
without even questioning it. Right, there's that trust there. They
can put you asleep, they can have access to touch
you completely nude in some cases, and we trust that
they're good people. They're not going to take advantage of
these situations. And look, there's millions and millions of good
doctors in the world. And then there's doctor Stephen Matthews.
Let me tell you, there's not a ton of information
out there on doctor Stephen Matthews prior to him actually
becoming it. Doctor. What I can tell you is he
was born on October eighth of nineteen eighty seven. He
is six feet tall, he's about one hundred and eighty
eight pounds, and he got his medical degree from New
York Medical College in twenty fourteen, and he was a
practicing cardiologist in Denver, Colorado. And he was thirty five
years old when he was arrested on March twenty second
of twenty twenty three and charged with three counts of
sexual assault for having sex with a woman who told
police she had no memory of engaging in sex with
the heart doctor. According to her, Matthews and the woman
met three dating app called Hinge. They communicated for several
weeks before agreeing to meet for brunch. This was on Sunday,
January twenty ninth of twenty twenty three. The pair had breakfast,
they had some mimosas, and then the two walked to
Matthew's nearby home. So the woman told police the two
played jinga and they hung out in his hot tub.
She said. After some time, she began to feel poorly
and the last memory she had was being in that
hot tub. Her next memory, she said, was nearly ten
hours later, when she was at home and she's being
treated by paramedics. She said. Shortly after the paramedics left,
she discovered she had hickeys on her chest, but she
didn't remember any interaction like that was Stephen. She also
told police she decided to press forward with the criminal
investigation after finding out that a family friend had gone
on a date with Matthews several years earlier and had
a similar experience. So the Denver police they get this
information and they contact Matthews and he told the police
that the woman had one or two mimosas and had
another mimosa at his house while he was having a tequila.
In his story, he said the woman had two shots
of tequila and that they started kissing in the hot
tub and then he asked her if she wanted to
go to bed. He didn't mean to go to sleep right.
She said that she did, and according to Matthews, they
had consensual sex. Matthews told police after they were done
having sex, she vomited, and he said that he helped
her and she vomited two more times. He then said
she later called for an uber and went home. He
even told the police he checked in with her later
and she had been apologetic, So police they didn't buy
that story, and the District Attorney of Denver charged Matthews
with sexual assault with no consent, sexual assault on a
helpless victim and sex assault on an incapable victim, and
all three of those are felony charges, y'all. So before
we go any further, let's talk about this. First off,
all of this may seem bizarre to you. It did
to me. I mean, Stephen Matthews. He was a cardiologist.
That means he's smart, means he works hard, and honestly,
he was a good looking guy. He had a ton
of money. And yes, I know these days it's quite
common for people to meet through dating apps, but it's
just not your typical situation. I wouldn't think when you're
a heart doctor, a single guy probably could have his
pick of ladies. I would imagine that he could date.
But I'll explain exactly why dating apps were his thing
later on. So let's get back to it. He gets
arrested on that charge, and he bails out the next
day on a fifty thousand dollars bond, and his court
date Tanner's plea is set for May sixteenth of twenty
twenty three. So on May sixteenth of twenty twenty three,
he shows up for his court date, right, and he's
Dannerous plea at this court date, and he enters what
you would expect him to dinner and not guilty plea,
and he walks out of the courtroom. He heads to
his car and boom, he is arrested as soon as
he gets outside. It seems when he was out of
jail on bail, police were doing their thing. They were
gathering evidence in that first case, and while in the
process of doing so, they discovered this was not the
first time Stephen Matthews had done this, not even close.
In McCann, who is the District attorney for the second
Judicial District in Denver, Colorado, she releases a public statement
following this second arrest, and this is really when this
thing blew up, and it reads Denver DA charges Stephen
Matthews with assaulting You're ready for this ten victims. On
March twenty second of twenty twenty three, Stephen Matthews, thirty five,
was arrested and accused of sexually assaulting and drugging a
female victim, and prosecutors with the DA's office charged him
with three felon accounts, sexual assault victim helpless, sexual assault
no consent, and sexual assault victim incapable of appraising condition.
Matthews was arrested again Monday, morning as he left the courtroom.
On April eighteenth, twenty twenty three, the Denver Police Department
announced that investigators have received subsequent information indicating there may
be other incidents involving Matthews and asks anyone who believed
that they may be a victim to call the Sex
Crime Genit. That request generated calls from un additional nine women.
As a result of new victims coming forward, prosecutors will
dismiss the original criminal case against Matthews and file a
new criminal case alleging sixteen felony counts involving a total
of ten female victims. The new case combines the charges
from the original case with new counts after nine additional
women came forward. Matthews is now charged with three counts
of sexual assault victim helpless, one count of sexual assault
no consent, two counts of sexual assault overcoming will drugging,
three counts of sexual assault victim incapable in seven counts
of second degree assault drugging. And so that came out,
and in the blink of an eye, this cardiologist you
is now accused of being a serial rapist of the
worst degree. Let me tell you how arrogant this asshole
is he renews his medical license in between finding out
he's being arrested on ten more charges. Now, this guy's
smart and he's no dummy. He's a cardiologist. Right. You
can't convince me that he didn't think anybody else was
going to come forward after he had done this to
all these women, unless he's just super arrogant. Well, guess what,
he's super arrogant. This came out in the Denver paper.
A cardiologist was able to renew his license one month
after Denver prosecutors charged him with multiple counts of sexual assault.
On May twenty second, Stephen Matthews agreed not to practice
right now, but only after nine more women came forward.
Police said. The first victim came forward early this year.
She's accused Matthew of sexually assaulting her after meeting him
on that dating app Hinge. On April twenty seventh, the
Department of Regulatory Agencies said Matthew sent in an application
to renew his license. In the renewal took effect May first.
I am shocked and dismayed as a person, as a
physician and as a colleague who practices in cardiology. That
from medical expert doctor Payel Coli Coli said there needed
to be more oversight and he hoped to see changes
in the system. She knows how the renewals work because
she submitted her application last month. It's less than a
five minute process, and it doesn't require me to talk
about any of my criminal convictions or mental health changes,
she said, just a blanket sort of question, which is
have there ever been any changes that you would like
to report? According to the notice sent by the agency,
it's up to the applicant to list any arrest charges
or convictions, and failure to disclose criminal history could constitute
grounds for denial of an application. The doctor went on
to say which physician would voluntarily give up information when
they haven't yet been convicted, only been charged that they
may put their license at risk? She said. On May sixteenth,
the Denver DA charge Matthews again for assaulting nine more women,
and it kind of goes on from there. But how
fucking arrogant is this guy? And how shocking is it
that you can renew your medical license when you're under
those sort of charges and they don't even ask you,
They ask you to voluntarily list anything in your life
that's changed. Well, I submit to you that no one's
going to volunteer that information. It wasn't long after that
a previously sealed indictment for his arrest on the charges
of multiple victims came out. And let me tell you
how these affidavits for arrest work. Essentially, a police officer
known asn't a fan, right, the person asking for permission
from a judge to arrest an individual, goes to the
judge with all the facts and it's typed up. And
I'm going to read you the affidavit concerning Stephen Matthews.
It says on January thirtieth of twenty twenty three, victim
and y'all, it redacts the victim's name, obviously because these
are sex crimes. So we're going to say victim A.
Victim A went to University hospital and underwent a sexual
assault nurse examination for sexual assault perpetrated against her the
previous night. At that time, she opted not to be identified.
A week later, however, on February sixth of twenty twenty three,
Victim A called the Denver Police Sex Crimes Unit and
asked about filing a report for sexual assault. She was
advised that she could come to headquarters since beat to
a detective, which she elected to do. Victim May arrived
at headquarters and met with Detective Andrew Como for a
preliminary interview. Victim Ay reported she recently met with a
man by the name of Stephen Matthews on a dating
app called Hinge. They spoke over the app for a
few weeks and agreed to meet. This was on January
twenty ninth of twenty twenty three. They met at approximately
ten to fifteen am at the On and Off Cafe
for breakfast and mimosis. After breakfast, he invited her to
his house and she accepted. They walked into his home,
later determined to be twenty two to thirty three West
thirtieth Avenue in the city of Denver. Matthews Driver's license
verified this address. She said the walk took around five minutes.
Once at doctor Matthews's home, they played the game Jinga
and then later got in his hot tub. Victim Ay
reported that doctor Matthews made her a drink and that
she began to feel poorly. Her next memory is being
at her own home and talking to paramedics. She had
no memory from about noon until about nine forty pm,
and she has no idea how she got home. Once
she regained her mental faculties, Victim A discovered she took
an uber home at her about three forty pm, and
then she called a friend and her sister during this time.
She was subsequently told she was not making sense during
those phone calls, so her sister came to her home
to check on her, as did her friend and her mother.
Upon arrival, her sister found Victim Ay in the shower
in her underwear. Victim May learned she was acting erratically
and did not know where she was. Paramedics responded to
the residents, but Victim AD declined treatment. Victim A reported
during her interview that she later noticed she had hickeys
on her chest, which she did not have prior to
blacking out. Victim A did not and does not, recall
any sexual interaction with doctor Matthews. The case was assigned
to your a Fayant, which is the police officer requesting
the hearst for follow up. Your Fan spoke with and
it redacts four names and learned that they observed Victim
A to be disoriented and were concerned that she had
been drugged. You're a Fan also learned that doctor Matthews
is a board certified cardiologist and internal medicine physician. On
February fourteenth of twenty twenty three, You're a fan called
Stephen Matthews on Valentine's Day? How about that for some
unique justice. He was told the reason for the call
and was asked if he would be willing to talk
about victim Ay. Doctor Matthews said he would, and he
confirmed that the two met for breakfast in Mimosas and
then went to his home. At his house, he said
that she had a larger mimosa and two shots tequila.
They went to the hot tub and she continued to
drink her mimosa. There. He reported that they started kissing
and that he invited her to bed. He said they
had consensual sex, and after that she vomited several times.
He offered her water, which she declined, and then offered
her a shower, which she accepted. Doctor Matthews stated that
after a while she was doing better and she called
for an uber and went home. On March twenty second
of twenty twenty three, doctor Matthews was arrested on three
counts of sexual assault against Victim Ay. On March twenty
seventh of twenty twenty three, You're a fe received a
phone call from Victim B, and Victim B stated she
had learned from a social media post that women were
reporting issues with doctor Matthews. It's already getting around, y'all,
and she wanted to share her story. She said she
met doctor Matthews on Hinge and they went on a
date on January twenty twenty fifth of twenty twenty three.
They met at a bar and he was having tequila shots.
She had one alcoholic drink and then agreed to return
to his place. She said she used the restroom and
when she came out, he had a drink for her.
He told her it was tequila and soda. She had
part of the drink and was off balance. She remembered
him filming her At one point. She remembered him kissing
her and then she blacked out. She described that she
has very little memory of what happened afterward, but she
remembers leaving without her shoes and that she had to
go back and get them. She took an uber home
and got violently ill. She reported that she believes doctor
Matthews sexually assaulted her, but has no memory of it.
Since doctor Matthew's arrest on March twenty second of twenty
twenty three. You're a Fan is aware that his arrest
has received media attention, with several new stories airing after
he was formally charged on March twenty eighth of twenty
twenty three. Since that time, several other women have came
forward to report being drugged or sexually assaulted by doctor Matthews.
On April twenty seventh of twenty twenty three, Yere spoke
with victim C. That day, Victim C came to the
Denver Police Department headquarters and reported that on October thirtieth
of twenty nineteen, she met doctor Matthews on the dating
app Tender. Doctor Matthews invited her to brunch and she
met him in the lobby around ten am. They had
mimosas with a meal, and then he invited her back
to his place to use the hot tub. She accepted
and they walked back to an apartment on twentieth in Logan.
Once there, Victim C commented that the apartment look like
it belonged to a woman. Doctor Matthews said that he
and his girlfriend had broken up and she was not there.
Doctor Matthews made her a drink, and Victim C states
that after the drink, things became blurry. She reported remembering
only bits and pieces of what happened. She was in
the hot tub, but does not remember leaving it. She
recalls being in doctor Matthew's bathroom, vomiting in a toilet,
and then being curled up in the bed in a
fetal position. She next remembers being in her apartment with him,
but not how they got there. She went to bed
and woke up to doctor Matthews having sex with her.
The next morning, she woke up and took him home.
She recalls that he asked her to drop him off
away from his home. A couple of weeks later, after
she told doctor Matthews she would not meet with him again.
Get this, get ready, y'all, he sent her photos of
her naked in the hot tub. Holy shit, you're a
spoke with Victim D. On April twenty fourth of twenty
twenty three. Victim D stated she had a sexual assault
nurse examination completed in twenty twenty after being sexually assaulted.
At that time, she elected to proceed as an anonymous
report and then changed to a medical report only. Victim
D stated she is now coming forward to identify her
assailant as Stephen Matthews. She said they had matched on
hinge and he agreed to meet her at a park
in the Uptown area and to walk their dogs. That
park was Benedict Fountain Park at twentieth and Lugan. He
asked her if she wanted to watch the sunset at
his place, and she went there with him. Computer checks
showed doctor Matthews living at nineteen thirty five Logan Street
at that time. She said he took her to the
rooftop area and then went to get things from his apartment.
She said he was going for a long period of time,
but eventually he came back with a drink for her
in a large cup. In a jinga game, she said
that she had noticed that there were dares written on
the jinga pieces that they appeared to be in different
people's handwriting. When she drew a blank piece, doctor Matthew
asked her to write a dare on it. She took
a sip or two of the drink and said that
it tasted bad. She eventually told him she needed to
leave and said she would help him take things back
to his apartment. Once inside. She said she was going
to leave, but he asked her to stay for just
five more minutes. She agreed and sat down. Victim D
reported that her next memory is crawling across his bedroom floor.
She was naked and yelling at him, asking what he did.
She said, she got dressed, got her dog, and fled
the apartment. She called her sister in law to pick
her up, and she was taken to the hospital for
a sexual assault and nurse examination. On April nineteenth of
twenty twenty three, year A FAE received a call from
victim E. Victim ME reported a few years ago, somewhere
between the fall of twenty twenty and the spring of
twenty twenty one, she met doctor Matthews on Hinge. He
suggested she come to the hospital so they could hook
up there, and that many other women had done it.
She declined, but eventually agreed to meet him at his
residence in Uptown, Denver. He talked about liking BDSM and
choking and said that she would not want to know
what type of porn he likes to watch. Victim Me
stated that everything happened on this occasion was consensual. However,
she went over to doctor matthews residence a second time.
On that occasion, doctor Matthews gave her a drink, which
she believed may have been tequila. After that, she blacked
out and does not remember anything at that point. Her
next memory was waking up at her home. She said
that she had planned on having sex with him, but
did not remember anything. On April twenty first of twenty
twenty three, You're a Fan spoke with Victim F. Victim
F called and said that she had been with doctor
Matthews in the past. She said that she went to
his residence, which she later said was in the twenty
two hundred block of West thirtieth Avenue, the top left
unit of the building on January twenty second of twenty
twenty two, because she had agreed to watch his house
and dog while he went out of town. On that date,
she went to his house to get a key and
he offered her a shot of tequila. After that, he
wanted to eat, so they went to a restaurant. She
thought he may have bought her a drink there as well.
VICTIMTH reported that she began to feel ill and went
to the restroom, where she became violently ill. She could
not keep her head up and the restaurant staff wanted
to call nine one one. She called a roommate for
a ride and left. Victim MeV said that her roommate
told her she was completely incoherent. Victims said she was
not sexually assaulted, but believes that doctor Matthews drugged her.
On April twentieth of twenty twenty three, Yure spoke with
Victim G. There's so many victim y'all, I'm losing track
of where I am in the alphabet. Victim G called
and said that she matched with Matthews on the dating
app tender in May of twenty twenty two. They went
on a hike and then went back to his place,
which she later said was off of Wydott and she
thought it was possibly between thirty fourth and thirty sixth Avenue.
She described the block as having a church on one
corner in a restaurant on the other. She said they
drank tequila and she only remembers having two or three shots.
They played jinga and then she remembered him waking her
up at eight pm and telling her she needed to leave.
She asked him what happened and he told her that
she passed out and that she must have been tired.
Victim GEN said that she was clothed when he woke
her and she did not have evidence that anything happened,
but there was a block of about four hours she
cannot remember. I mean, this is crazy, y'all. On April
nineteenth of twenty twenty three, Victim H called the Denver
Police Department Sex Crimes hotline and spoke with Detective Reuben Gnardo.
Victim H reported that she had matched with doctor Matthews
on the dating app Tender and they agreed to meet
on May twenty fifth, of twenty twenty two. They met
at a park around two pm. After hanging out there,
doctor Matthews said that the view from his apartment was
good at that time of day and invited her back
to his place to play games. She stated that she
drove him and his dog to his place, which was
only a few blocks from the park, and once there,
she had at least two shots of an alcoholic broverge.
Victim H reported that she and doctor Matthews played a
game and the next thing she remembered she was waking
up that one am in his bed. She reported having
a vague memory of him being on top of her
and kissing her. On April nineteenth of twenty twenty three,
You're A spoke with victim I. Victim I called him
reported she went on a date with doctor Matthews on
February fifth of twenty twenty three, and y'all, that's after
he was fucking arrested the first time, but I'll continue on.
After they met on Hinge, she said that he invited
her back to his residence at Low High near thirty Street,
and that he wanted to play Jinga with her, hang
out in the hot tub, and drink Mimosa's. He also
told her that she could bring her dog once there.
Victim I reported that Doctor Stevens tried to get her
to drink something he had made, but she declined. She
said that when they played Jinga there were things written
on the jinga pieces, like in the game Truth or Dare.
She said that he got touchy when they were in
the hot tub. She began to feel very uncomfortable and
decided to leave. She said that she subsequently realized that
he was the same person who had sexually assaulted her
friend three years earlier. On May first of twenty twenty three,
year of spoke to Victim Jay. Victim J called to
report that she had gone on a date with doctor Matthews.
She said they met on tender in May or June
of twenty twenty two, and he asked her to come
to Denver to meet. They were going to have coffee
at a coffee shop near his house and take their
dogs to a nearby park. After meaning, he invited her
to his home and they walked there they played ladder ball.
I've never heard of that, and he then invited her
up to his home to play jinga. She agreed, and
while playing, she noticed that the pieces had dares written
on them, like take a shot. She remembered taking one
shot and may have had a part of a white claw.
After that, things got fuzzy. She did not know what happened,
but she ended up with bite marks on her arms.
She said she had met with him at about eleven
thirty am, but did not feel able to drive home,
so she had to spend the night. Based on these facts,
your fate is requesting an arrest warrant. Holy shit, y'all?
Is that not crazy? And you notice his mo is
the same in every one of these cases. Let's play
jinga and why did he have him play jinga because
he had the dares written on those one of those
dares being take a shot and the shot had the
drug in it. Right, What a fucking psycho. So it's
not looking good for doctor Matthews right, Well, it would
get worse, much much worse. Before the dust settled, Doctor
Matthews would be I'm the most prolific serial rapist in
the history of the state of Colorado. So more information
is discovered when he shows up to enter his plea
on the second arrest, And that was on October fifth
of twenty twenty three, and the Denver newspaper read like this,
A Denver cardiologist accused of drugging and sexually assaulting women
he met through dating apps, was arraigned on more than
fifty felony counts. On Friday, Doctor Stephen Matthews, thirty five,
a board certified cardiologist and internal medicine physician, pleaded not
guilty to fifty one counts, including sexual assault and drugging.
Matthews was first arrested in March on three counts of
sexual assault. And I've already told y'all all of that.
In the initial case, a woman told police she met
Matthews on hinge and blacked out while on a day
with him. Douglas Cone, one of Matthew's attorneys, said in
April that Matthews was innocent and claimed there was a
failure to fully investigate the case. The accuser's story simply
don't add up. Police admitted from their arrest affidavit many
details that contradict her claim of no consent, and he's
talking about the first victim. Matthews was released with custody
on a fifty thousand dollars buying for the March arrest.
Following media reports on his arrest. In that case, more
women were reported being drugged and or sexually assaulted. He
was arrested again in May after nine more women came forward,
with most meeting him on hinge or tender as far
back as twenty nineteen. Several of the women reported filling
ill on dates with Matthews at his home and then
blacking out. One reported her next memory was crawling across
his bedroom floor naked and yelling at him. Another woman
told police she had become ill while on a date
at a restaurant. Matthews is being held on a five
million dollar bond at a Denver jail and is scheduled
to next imperiod court on December twenty eighth for emotions hearing.
The arrangement comes after a judge world last month that
there was enough evidence for Matthews to stand trial in
the case. Steven Berg with the Berg Simpson Law firm,
which is representing some of the women in civil court,
said that he planned to follow a lawsuit once criminal
proceedings are over, alleging Matthews was never removed from the
dating apps despite being reported for sexual assault, and that's
what I was wanting to get at here. They planned
to name the match Group, a parent company of Hinge
and Tender, as a defendant. Generally, I would just say
that he was being reported early on in the process
and on the dating app for years after being reported
as a rapist. So this some bitch people were getting
in touch with Hinge and Tender and saying, Hey, this asshole,
I think he raped me. I blacked out, So I
don't have any proof, but I blacked out should be enough, right,
Yet they didn't even cancel this dude's account after being reported.
But y'all, fifty felony counts against this guy, So not
only now is the city of Denver in the state
of Colorado just reeling over all of this. But with
this new information, the story is catching on nationally. I mean,
this is a damn hard doctor right well, as I
see happen all the time. The more popular of the case,
the more details will leak. And some pretty sick details
regarding this asshole emerged. And one article that caught my
eye referenced the use of his dog in his sick game.
And here's how that article read. From a Denver newspaper
on October thirteenth of twenty twenty three, the attorney for
victims of a Denver cardiologist accused of meeting women on
dating apps, then drugging and raping them, says there could
be upwards of sixty victims involved in a civil case
against the doctor. Doctor Stephen Matthews, thirty six, faces fifty
one felon accounts in a criminal court in connection with
thirteen victims. He has entered a not guilty plea If
y'all notice those victims went up because more people were
coming forward. Prosecutors say that as early as twenty nineteen,
Matthews would meet with women he met on dating apps
and then slipped something into their drink. The victims would
often black out or become disoriented, which led to them
being unable to remember most of the encounters with Matthews.
Police arresting him in March of twenty twenty three, and
he is now being held in a five million dollar bond,
with his criminal trial expected to get under way in
March of twenty twenty four. Stephen Berg, representing dozens of
victims in the civil case, said he would build trust
and give them a drink, usually close to his home,
and then drug them. They would be very, very impaired
and not know what's going on, and he would sexually
assault them. He was savvy and able to build trust.
He'd say, let's meet in a public place and talk
about his dog, and then oftentimes use that as an
excuse to head back to his house or apartment. He
would say he needed to walk his dog or feed
his dog. Berg said the women who didn't know what
had happened to them heard stories from other victims, and
then things started to click in the place for them.
They wanted to put this all behind them, but now
they want to make sure and stand up and provide
some change. So this doesn't happen again. You know, quite frankly,
every time a story is run on this, there are
more and more survivors coming forward saying, Oh my gosh,
I'm hearing about this for the first time, and I
want to do my part to make sure this doesn't happen.
Some of these survivors are going to have to talk
to about some of the most person things in their
life in a public setting. I'm inspired by their strength, etc.
Match Group owns about eighty percent of the online dating
market share, and they own a number of specific apps,
including engine Tender and so you know. One of the
failures of match Group was when Matthew was reported as
a rapist. He continued to be on their website for
multiple years. Afterward. Bird said the report was made by
a victim of an assault, but it was before criminal
charges were filed. The victim was told Matthews will be
removed from the app, but Bird says that didn't happen.
What's been reported is horrible and has no place on
our platforms, that from match Group. So there you have it.
The whole nation at this point knows about all this.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Doctor Matthews, y'all, he lived when he was arrested in
a very upscale apartment building, not a house. So if
you're doing this sort of thing, it's probably a little
harder to hide it with people coming and going right,
especially remember that affidavit I just read you. How many
people were coming and going, how many ladies? What would
the neighbors think? Well, in this next club, his neighbor
in that building describes what she saw and thought.
Speaker 5: Listen to this definitely had a reputation of being a player,
just girl after girl after girl. Almost every time they
came home. There was, you know, girl shoes outside his apartment.
Every time he saw him either at the pool with
a different girl, kind of the foot traffic in and
out was just girls in, girls out.
Speaker 3: Now, as time went on, it got worse for this
neighbor and very disturbing. One night, that same neighbor, she
walks out of her apartment and right in front of
his door. She saw what she did scribes in the
next club, and even took a picture which she supplied
to police. And here's what she sounded like, describing that.
Speaker 5: Face down, topless, completely passed out. I just came across her,
and again, there was something in me that made me
even think to take a photo to begin with.
Speaker 3: In this picture, y'all, I've seen it. It's shocking. This
lady has passed out nothing but a thong, sprawled out
in front of this assholes front door. I mean, how
arrogant did this guy have to be just to leave
the girl in front of his front door like that
in an apartment building. So the trial starts for Steven Matthews.
This is on July fifteenth of twenty twenty four, and
there were no TV cueris a lot in for this one,
which I think was the right decision. These are sexual
assault victims and they deserved to have their identity protected. Now,
during this trial, many of the women testified about their experience,
and I'm going to reference an article now that covers
the testimony of one of these women who recounted her
date with Stephen Matthews. A woman who met Stephen Matthews
on a dating app and subsequently got together with him
in twenty twenty three, testified Wednesday in a Denver court
room that she believed the cardiologist spiked the drink he
made for her home. She said the drink left her incapacitated,
hindered her ability to walk and speak, and that after
drinking with the doctor, she had little memory of what
happened next. She testified what happened left her traumatized and upset.
The woman who appeared Wednesday met Matthews on the dating
app hinge. They met at a restaurant where she had
tequila in a mixed drink. Following that, she went with
Matthews to time was town home, where she was offered tequila,
which she did not see him prepare. She said after
ingesting a small portion of the drink, she became incapacitated
and said he put me in a headlock position I
couldn't escape from and kissed me. Under direct examination, the
woman said she lost control of her body, the ability
to walk and speak, and does not have memories of
large portions of the night. She took a neighbor home,
threw up in the car, and recalled waking up on
the bathroom floor with vomit in the bathtub. The woman
testified she had never had a reaction like that from
drinking alcohol. The woman said she felt nauseous, dizzy, confused, afraid,
and drove herself to an urgent care facility the day
after a date seeking a drug test for a possible
date rape drug. The facility did not have the material
for testing and suggested she go to the hospital, but
she declined. I was feeling traumatized and upset, and I
wanted to be at home where I felt safe, she said.
She said what happened really scared her. She later reported
what happened to the hinge dating app, filed an anonymous
complaint with the Colorado Medical Board, and told her primary
care physician what happened. When police searched Matthew's cellphone following
his arrest, they found a video he had taken of
the very woman doing a cartwheel in his townhouse on
the night in question. I don't have any memory of
that moment in time or the video taken, she testified.
Under cross examination by Matthew's defense team, The woman was
asked about a fall she had taken a week or
two prior to the date. She said she had slipped
on some ice while walking her dog, fell and hit
her head. The defense seemed to be trying to suggest
her symptoms on that night in question could be traced
back to the earlier fall. Juror also asked questions about
the fall. Was it a hard fall. Did you receive
bruising or swelling? No, responded the witness. Another juror asked
if Matthews had permission to take the pictures or video
of her, and she responded, I did not give him permission.
The trials scheduled to run through the end the next month,
and Matthews is chasing thirty eight charges and is being
held in jail on a five million dollar bond. Wow. So,
something else I found interesting in this case is that
the mother of one of the victims was able to
tell her story on the stand during the trial. I
just could not imagine dealing with this as a parent
of two girls myself. And it was covered in the
Denver paper. And here's what that experience sounded like. The
mother of a woman who went on a date with
doctor Stephen Matthews testified Thursday morning that after seeing her
daughter following the date, she suspected there was a big problem.
I'm feeling like she's been drugged and sexually assaulted. The
mother testified, recounting her feelings at that time. She was
not making sense, she was so dazed. The testimonty came
as part of the prosecution's case against the Denver cardiologists,
who was facing thirty eight felony charges for allegedly drugging
eleven women and then sexually assaulting nine of them. Matthews
is pleaded not guilty to the chargers. The women generally
met Matthews via dating apps like Hinge and Tender, but
say after going on a date with him, they believe
he pampered with their drinks, leaving them with memory laws
in some cases, illness, and physical signs that they had
been assaulted. One woman who met Matthews on Hinge said
that she went on a brunch date with him in
January of twenty twenty three. She said after mimosa's at
a restaurant, she then went to his West Denver home,
where she had another mimosa that she said Matthews prepared.
The woman said she soon began feeling poorly and lost
memory the rest of the date. Matthews later claimed the
woman agreed to have consensual sex with him and then
vomited him multiple times. Her mother, who has been a
nurse for forty two years, sat on the stand her
daughter was not making sense in a phone conversation, and
she went to her daughter's apartment. She looked really dazed,
didn't know where she was. She said her daughter was
foggy and it was terrifying. Her mother took her to
the hospital for a rape examination, which the mother described
as horrific. Sheer, anguish, unbearable. She said her daughter told
a nurse, I think I was drugged and sexually assaulted.
The daughter later said she discovered Hickey's on her chest,
but did not recall having the kind of physical interaction
with Matthews. On cross examination, Matthew's attorney Douglas Combe, raised
the issue of alleged victim's use of marijuana, which shut
up in scientific testing. Combe pressed the woman's mother and
her daughter's drinking habits, which the my mother said were minimal.
And that's pretty pathetic, y'all. I mean, I know he
has to do his job as a defense attorney, but
he's basically saying, because this girl smoked marijuana, you know,
maybe that's why she forgot she got raped. Disgusting and
earlier Thursday testimony, a friend of the alleged victim who
saw her after the date said she had seen the
woman drunk before, but that this was different. I never
saw her disoriented like this. It was clear to me
that something was wrong. So that is a mother's perspective
on that. So the prosecutors rest their case and the
defense rest their case. And on August twelfth of twenty
twenty four, doctor Stephen Matthews has found guilty on thirty
five of thirty eight counts of rape against eleven different women.
And here is how that read in the Denver Paper.
A former Denver cardiologist charged with drugging and sexually assaulting
nearly a dozen women, was found guilty on Tuesday on
all but three counts that were brought against him. Stephen
Matthews was convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting multiple women,
and was originally arrested in March of twenty twenty three
after a woman first reported to Denver police she was
drugged during a brunch date and sexually assaulted at his home.
Two months later, Matthews was arrested for a second time
after nine more women came forward with similar allegations, reporting
that they met Matthews online and after agreeing to meet
for drinks, lost large portions of their memory. The allegations
date back to twenty nineteen. In total, eleven women came
forward with allegations of Matthews drugging them. Nine of them
reported sexual assaults to the police, facing thirty eight charges.
In total, Prosecutors presented dozens of witnesses and hundreds of
pieces of evidence to the jury. Stephen Matthews had a
deliberate and very particular way of identifying and selecting the
targets that would eventually perpetrate against him, set a prosecutor
during closing arguments, this is an obvious, obvious case of
a man who feels entitled to perpetray against women for
his own benefit by robbing them of memory, by robbing
them of bodily autonomy, and by impairing their memories, only
to have them come in and testify and criticize them
for the fact that their memories don't exist. The defense
argued that the prosecution's case lacked evidence merely getting up
here and telling a story. It's evidence for you to consider,
but it's not proof beyond a reasonable doubt unless you
think it is. It's just an accusation. It's just an
allegation that from the defense attorney. Don't let the volume
of accusations override your common sense and your reasonableness. During
the verdict. Tuesday, Matthew was found guilty on thirty five
of thirty eight counts. His boond was also revoked following
a request from prosecutors, so they're not going to allow
him to bond out and then come back to get sentenced,
which is good because he probably all last right. Stephen
Matthews took advantage of nearly a dozen women in the
most egregious way imaginable, and for that he will now
pay a significant price, said Denver Da Beth McCann in
a prepared statement. I hope today's verty provides a measure
of comfort to all the victims, whose courage throughout this
case should be an inspiration to all of us. And
sentencing for doctor Stephen Matthews is scheduled for October twenty fifth,
of twenty twenty four at one thirty pm. Mean, y'all,
it was so bad that it took the judgeeen minutes
just to read out all of the guilty verdicts against
doctor Stephen Matthews. This cardiologist, who I'm sure worked very
hard to get his education at the age of thirty six,
through it all away and in the process became the
worst serial rapist in Colorado history and one of the
worst in United States history. So I told y'all at
the start that I had my own idea of why
Stephen Matthews chose dating apps to lure his victims. And
for me, I think he looked at dating apps as
a way to commit these acts without having an emotional
connection to the victim. He didn't know them on any level,
and so in his mind, he could all of these
things and not feel guilty for it. I also think
that he was such a narcissist that he felt that
if these women were on dating apps that they were
more desperate for a partner than someone who was not,
and looked at these women as easy targets. Now, single
ladies out there, I'm talking to you right now because
I love y'all. Y'all are listening to my podcast, and
I really do care about every single person that listens.
It takes the time to listen to me when I'm
behind a microphone. So I'm talking to you, ladies. Single ladies,
be extra careful on dating apps. This is where these
sick assholes are lurking. Unfortunately, technology has made it much
easier for sexual predators to find their prey. Most of
the people on these apps are good people, right, But
I promise you there's some sickos on there, just like
this one. And if you do meet someone, meet them
in a public setting, and sometimes that won't even save you.
Doctor Matthews he always met these women in public settings,
but never go back to their house, never leave an
unattended drink around them, and never accept a drink from them.
If you meet someone through a dating app, assume, just
assume they have bad intentions and make them prove otherwise.
The good one that are worth it, they don't mind
having to prove to you that they're good peeps. So
I will definitely update all of you once this piece
of shit gets sentenced, and before I get out of here.
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