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it's calling my name. There is no mercy and it's

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been a tentery juice.

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Speaker 1: Die inside these walls, inside the wild.

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Speaker 2: Hadn't went no girls.

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Speaker 3: I Hey everyone, and welcome back to Bloody and Gola,

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a podcast one and forty two years in the making,

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the complete story of America's bloodiest prison. I'm Jim Chapman,

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and I have an announcement to make. If you follow

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Bloody Angla podcast on Facebook, you already are aware of this.

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If you do not, I'm going to read a post

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I put shortly after dropping episode one of the Brandon

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Scott Laverne podcast last week, and then I'll provide a

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little clarification and it reads as follows. To all who

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read this, I need to provide an update on next

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week's drop. This is lengthy, so bear with me. After

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much thought in deliberation, I have made the decision to

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suspend subsequent episodes of the Hunt for the Cajun Killer.

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When I started this series, it was with nothing but

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the best intent. I, like many others, had seen the

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Dateline series when it first aired way back in twenty thirteen,

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and my heart absolutely went out to the victims in

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this case. My intent with the first episode of this

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series was to put a face on a victim who

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I personally felt got a little lost in the impending

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media frenzy. Most people that have messaged me did not

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even realize these two cases were related that were not

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in the LAFE yet. A victims surround all true crime cases,

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and I do my best to focus on putting a

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human face on these victims. They come in many forms

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and are on both sides of a crime. In this

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particular series, what I wanted to do differently than any

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other podcast on the subject was to focus on the

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things I felt were not as well known or really

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focused on the amazing job that law enforcement did, especially

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as it relates to spotting those items in the back

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of that white truck and finding a link. The leadership

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displayed by Mickey Senick's sister, who, during what was a

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horrific time for her and her family, was able to

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organize search parties under unimaginable circumstances. Finally, the massive response

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from the public, hundreds of volunteers, many who had never

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met Mickey, just showing up doing whatever they could to help.

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Those are the things I believe no one should ever forget.

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and people, so much so a married one shout out Arnerville, Louisiana.

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I'm proud of the Cajun community as a whole, and

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I wanted to spotlight it to the world. Unfortunately, to

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tell that story, you have to tell the whole story.

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I did not realize how against this the families directly

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affected were. When you go into a project with the

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best of intentions, you sometimes assume that everyone knows exactly

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what you were doing and why you were doing it.

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While I may disagree with some of the things that

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were brought to my attention regarding podcasters who focus on

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the true crime genre, intentions can vary from person to person.

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I also feel the proper step in this very unique

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situation is to respect the wishes of those who, even

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to this day, are victims. My thoughts in prayers now

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and will always be with the victims of violent crimes

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and the families of those affected. I will provide a

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more clear explanation on next Thursday's drop, which will focus

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on a different subject. Thank you so much for your support,

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And that was that Facebook post when I tell all

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of you I was inside my own head for a

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day and a half regarding what step to make in

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this situation. I was it was not easy. I do

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not take it lightly because there are things about this

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case that I feel like need to be known. However,

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after praying on it, I felt like this was the

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right thing to do. That being said, every bit of

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information that I referenced and going to reference can be

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found online and if you'll go to the first episode,

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we provide sources for everything we discuss and those sources

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so you're welcome to go through that and learn the

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story for yourself. Now, I had obviously planned to release

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that second episode this week. That's obviously not going to

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episode to put out there that was brand new for

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you of Bloody and Gola. But I'm going to give

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you something and something that relates to prison now. I

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a very different podcast asked in a lot of ways,

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but some of these episodes directly relate to prison and

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of course people that end up in prison. And one

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and it is about doctor Stephen Matthews, who was a

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cardiologist and he was convicted in over a dozen sexual

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assaults of victims he met on Hinge and Tender. It

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was one of the most prolific sexual predator cases in

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US history. And it was originally dropped on Exposed back

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in September. So some of my audience here on Bloody

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in Gola overlaps and some does not. So for those

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play that episode for you today. Now next week, Christmas week,

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after Christmas. So your next drop will be January second,

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and it's going to be a brand new episode of

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not going to announce it yet, but I promise you you're

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going to be into it, so thank you for understanding.

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First of all those of you that put the unbelievably

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kind messages on Facebook. I really appreciate it. I hope

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you enjoyed this episode that I'm bringing you now, and

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the Elite. Give us a follow. So here it is

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doctor Stephen Matthews dating apps. They are this generation's version

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of the blind date. For the women who matched with

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doctor Steven Matthews, they thought they had found the man

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of their dreams, at least on paper. He was smart, attractive,

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and wealthy. At just thirty six, he was one of

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the top cardiologists in the entire state of Colorado. The

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women who would meet with the young doctor were excited.

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They could not wait to tell their closest friends how

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the first date went. But it was what they could

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not remember about that first date that was so shocking

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and would change the lives of over a dozen women forever.

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Welcome to Exposed Scandalous Files of the Elite.

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Speaker 4: Unhinged Doctor Stephen Matthews. Hey everyone, and welcome back to

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Exposed Scandalous Files of the Elite. I am your host,

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Jim Chapman, thank you for joining me today. And before

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member from our Patreon that I need to shout out.

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Speaker 3: Hubert and y'all. Tiffany is from Overland, Missouri, and I'm

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a history buff and when it comes to y'all joining

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like to google it can kind of check out the

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history on it. And a couple of things I found

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interesting about Overland, Missouri. Daniel Boone actually built a cabin.

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Records Office, which had a huge fire in nineteen seventy three.

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United States. Some pretty interesting stuff. And thank you again,

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Miss Tiffany for joining as a Global celebrity member. So

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let's get into today's episode. And y'all, I'm telling you

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this one is going to blow your mind. I'm going

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to call it unhinged and you'll see why as we

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go along in the story. Now, in my opinion, the

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top profession in which trust is just absolutely paramount is

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in the field of medicine, and specifically that of a

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medical doctor. Now, not only does a medical doctor have

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access to your most intimate history as far as your health,

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but typically the trust is so great that your doctor

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God's green Earth to heal whatever it is you're in

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the doctor's office for, and you're probably gonna take it

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without even questioning it. Right, there's that trust there. They

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can put you asleep, they can have access to touch

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you completely nude in some cases, and we trust that

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they're good people. They're not going to take advantage of

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these situations. And look, there's millions and millions of good

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Let me tell you, there's not a ton of information

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out there on doctor Stephen Matthews prior to him actually

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becoming it. Doctor. What I can tell you is he

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was born on October eighth of nineteen eighty seven. He

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is six feet tall, he's about one hundred and eighty

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eight pounds, and he got his medical degree from New

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York Medical College in twenty fourteen, and he was a

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practicing cardiologist in Denver, Colorado. And he was thirty five

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years old when he was arrested on March twenty second

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of twenty twenty three and charged with three counts of

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sexual assault for having sex with a woman who told

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police she had no memory of engaging in sex with

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the heart doctor. According to her, Matthews and the woman

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met three dating app called Hinge. They communicated for several

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weeks before agreeing to meet for brunch. This was on Sunday,

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they had some mimosas, and then the two walked to

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Matthew's nearby home. So the woman told police the two

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hot tub. Her next memory, she said, was nearly ten

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treated by paramedics. She said. Shortly after the paramedics left,

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she discovered she had hickeys on her chest, but she

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didn't remember any interaction like that was Stephen. She also

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told police she decided to press forward with the criminal

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investigation after finding out that a family friend had gone

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on a date with Matthews several years earlier and had

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a similar experience. So the Denver police they get this

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information and they contact Matthews and he told the police

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that the woman had one or two mimosas and had

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another mimosa at his house while he was having a tequila.

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of tequila and that they started kissing in the hot

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tub and then he asked her if she wanted to

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had consensual sex. Matthews told police after they were done

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having sex, she vomited, and he said that he helped

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her and she vomited two more times. He then said

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she later called for an uber and went home. He

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even told the police he checked in with her later

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and she had been apologetic, So police they didn't buy

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that story, and the District Attorney of Denver charged Matthews

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with sexual assault with no consent, sexual assault on a

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helpless victim and sex assault on an incapable victim, and

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all three of those are felony charges, y'all. So before

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all of this may seem bizarre to you. It did

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to me. I mean, Stephen Matthews. He was a cardiologist.

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he was a good looking guy. He had a ton

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of money. And yes, I know these days it's quite

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common for people to meet through dating apps, but it's

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just not your typical situation. I wouldn't think when you're

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a heart doctor, a single guy probably could have his

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pick of ladies. I would imagine that he could date.

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later on. So let's get back to it. He gets

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arrested on that charge, and he bails out the next

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day on a fifty thousand dollars bond, and his court

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date Tanner's plea is set for May sixteenth of twenty

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twenty three. So on May sixteenth of twenty twenty three,

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he shows up for his court date, right, and he's

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and he walks out of the courtroom. He heads to

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his car and boom, he is arrested as soon as

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jail on bail, police were doing their thing. They were

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gathering evidence in that first case, and while in the

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process of doing so, they discovered this was not the

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first time Stephen Matthews had done this, not even close.

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In McCann, who is the District attorney for the second

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thing blew up, and it reads Denver DA charges Stephen

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Matthews with assaulting You're ready for this ten victims. On

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March twenty second of twenty twenty three, Stephen Matthews, thirty five,

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was arrested and accused of sexually assaulting and drugging a

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female victim, and prosecutors with the DA's office charged him

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with three felon accounts, sexual assault victim helpless, sexual assault

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no consent, and sexual assault victim incapable of appraising condition.

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Matthews was arrested again Monday, morning as he left the courtroom.

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On April eighteenth, twenty twenty three, the Denver Police Department

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announced that investigators have received subsequent information indicating there may

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be other incidents involving Matthews and asks anyone who believed

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that they may be a victim to call the Sex

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Crime Genit. That request generated calls from un additional nine women.

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As a result of new victims coming forward, prosecutors will

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dismiss the original criminal case against Matthews and file a

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new criminal case alleging sixteen felony counts involving a total

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of ten female victims. The new case combines the charges

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from the original case with new counts after nine additional

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women came forward. Matthews is now charged with three counts

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of sexual assault victim helpless, one count of sexual assault

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no consent, two counts of sexual assault overcoming will drugging,

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three counts of sexual assault victim incapable in seven counts

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of second degree assault drugging. And so that came out,

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and in the blink of an eye, this cardiologist you

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is now accused of being a serial rapist of the

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worst degree. Let me tell you how arrogant this asshole

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is he renews his medical license in between finding out

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he's being arrested on ten more charges. Now, this guy's

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smart and he's no dummy. He's a cardiologist. Right. You

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can't convince me that he didn't think anybody else was

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going to come forward after he had done this to

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all these women, unless he's just super arrogant. Well, guess what,

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he's super arrogant. This came out in the Denver paper.

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A cardiologist was able to renew his license one month

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after Denver prosecutors charged him with multiple counts of sexual assault.

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On May twenty second, Stephen Matthews agreed not to practice

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right now, but only after nine more women came forward.

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Police said. The first victim came forward early this year.

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She's accused Matthew of sexually assaulting her after meeting him

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on that dating app Hinge. On April twenty seventh, the

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Department of Regulatory Agencies said Matthew sent in an application

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to renew his license. In the renewal took effect May first.

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I am shocked and dismayed as a person, as a

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physician and as a colleague who practices in cardiology. That

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from medical expert doctor Payel Coli Coli said there needed

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to be more oversight and he hoped to see changes

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in the system. She knows how the renewals work because

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she submitted her application last month. It's less than a

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five minute process, and it doesn't require me to talk

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about any of my criminal convictions or mental health changes,

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she said, just a blanket sort of question, which is

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have there ever been any changes that you would like

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to report? According to the notice sent by the agency,

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it's up to the applicant to list any arrest charges

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or convictions, and failure to disclose criminal history could constitute

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grounds for denial of an application. The doctor went on

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to say which physician would voluntarily give up information when

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they haven't yet been convicted, only been charged that they

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may put their license at risk? She said. On May sixteenth,

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the Denver DA charge Matthews again for assaulting nine more women,

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and it kind of goes on from there. But how

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fucking arrogant is this guy? And how shocking is it

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that you can renew your medical license when you're under

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those sort of charges and they don't even ask you,

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They ask you to voluntarily list anything in your life

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that's changed. Well, I submit to you that no one's

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going to volunteer that information. It wasn't long after that

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a previously sealed indictment for his arrest on the charges

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of multiple victims came out. And let me tell you

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how these affidavits for arrest work. Essentially, a police officer

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known asn't a fan, right, the person asking for permission

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from a judge to arrest an individual, goes to the

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judge with all the facts and it's typed up. And

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I'm going to read you the affidavit concerning Stephen Matthews.

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It says on January thirtieth of twenty twenty three, victim

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and y'all, it redacts the victim's name, obviously because these

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are sex crimes. So we're going to say victim A.

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Victim A went to University hospital and underwent a sexual

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assault nurse examination for sexual assault perpetrated against her the

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previous night. At that time, she opted not to be identified.

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A week later, however, on February sixth of twenty twenty three,

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Victim A called the Denver Police Sex Crimes Unit and

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asked about filing a report for sexual assault. She was

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advised that she could come to headquarters since beat to

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a detective, which she elected to do. Victim May arrived

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at headquarters and met with Detective Andrew Como for a

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preliminary interview. Victim Ay reported she recently met with a

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man by the name of Stephen Matthews on a dating

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app called Hinge. They spoke over the app for a

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few weeks and agreed to meet. This was on January

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twenty ninth of twenty twenty three. They met at approximately

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ten to fifteen am at the On and Off Cafe

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for breakfast and mimosis. After breakfast, he invited her to

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his house and she accepted. They walked into his home,

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later determined to be twenty two to thirty three West

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thirtieth Avenue in the city of Denver. Matthews Driver's license

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verified this address. She said the walk took around five minutes.

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Once at doctor Matthews's home, they played the game Jinga

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and then later got in his hot tub. Victim Ay

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reported that doctor Matthews made her a drink and that

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she began to feel poorly. Her next memory is being

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at her own home and talking to paramedics. She had

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no memory from about noon until about nine forty pm,

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and she has no idea how she got home. Once

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she regained her mental faculties, Victim A discovered she took

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an uber home at her about three forty pm, and

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then she called a friend and her sister during this time.

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She was subsequently told she was not making sense during

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those phone calls, so her sister came to her home

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to check on her, as did her friend and her mother.

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Upon arrival, her sister found Victim Ay in the shower

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in her underwear. Victim May learned she was acting erratically

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and did not know where she was. Paramedics responded to

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the residents, but Victim AD declined treatment. Victim A reported

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during her interview that she later noticed she had hickeys

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on her chest, which she did not have prior to

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blacking out. Victim A did not and does not, recall

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any sexual interaction with doctor Matthews. The case was assigned

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to your a Fayant, which is the police officer requesting

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the hearst for follow up. Your Fan spoke with and

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it redacts four names and learned that they observed Victim

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A to be disoriented and were concerned that she had

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been drugged. You're a Fan also learned that doctor Matthews

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is a board certified cardiologist and internal medicine physician. On

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February fourteenth of twenty twenty three, You're a fan called

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Stephen Matthews on Valentine's Day? How about that for some

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unique justice. He was told the reason for the call

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and was asked if he would be willing to talk

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about victim Ay. Doctor Matthews said he would, and he

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confirmed that the two met for breakfast in Mimosas and

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then went to his home. At his house, he said

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that she had a larger mimosa and two shots tequila.

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They went to the hot tub and she continued to

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drink her mimosa. There. He reported that they started kissing

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and that he invited her to bed. He said they

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had consensual sex, and after that she vomited several times.

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He offered her water, which she declined, and then offered

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her a shower, which she accepted. Doctor Matthews stated that

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after a while she was doing better and she called

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for an uber and went home. On March twenty second

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of twenty twenty three, doctor Matthews was arrested on three

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counts of sexual assault against Victim Ay. On March twenty

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seventh of twenty twenty three, You're a fe received a

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phone call from Victim B, and Victim B stated she

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had learned from a social media post that women were

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reporting issues with doctor Matthews. It's already getting around, y'all,

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and she wanted to share her story. She said she

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met doctor Matthews on Hinge and they went on a

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date on January twenty twenty fifth of twenty twenty three.

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They met at a bar and he was having tequila shots.

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She had one alcoholic drink and then agreed to return

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to his place. She said she used the restroom and

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when she came out, he had a drink for her.

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He told her it was tequila and soda. She had

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part of the drink and was off balance. She remembered

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him filming her At one point. She remembered him kissing

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her and then she blacked out. She described that she

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has very little memory of what happened afterward, but she

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remembers leaving without her shoes and that she had to

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go back and get them. She took an uber home

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and got violently ill. She reported that she believes doctor

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Matthews sexually assaulted her, but has no memory of it.

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Since doctor Matthew's arrest on March twenty second of twenty

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twenty three. You're a Fan is aware that his arrest

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has received media attention, with several new stories airing after

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he was formally charged on March twenty eighth of twenty

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twenty three. Since that time, several other women have came

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forward to report being drugged or sexually assaulted by doctor Matthews.

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On April twenty seventh of twenty twenty three, Yere spoke

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with victim C. That day, Victim C came to the

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Denver Police Department headquarters and reported that on October thirtieth

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of twenty nineteen, she met doctor Matthews on the dating

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app Tender. Doctor Matthews invited her to brunch and she

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met him in the lobby around ten am. They had

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mimosas with a meal, and then he invited her back

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to his place to use the hot tub. She accepted

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and they walked back to an apartment on twentieth in Logan.

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Once there, Victim C commented that the apartment look like

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it belonged to a woman. Doctor Matthews said that he

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and his girlfriend had broken up and she was not there.

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Doctor Matthews made her a drink, and Victim C states

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that after the drink, things became blurry. She reported remembering

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only bits and pieces of what happened. She was in

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the hot tub, but does not remember leaving it. She

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recalls being in doctor Matthew's bathroom, vomiting in a toilet,

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and then being curled up in the bed in a

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fetal position. She next remembers being in her apartment with him,

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but not how they got there. She went to bed

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and woke up to doctor Matthews having sex with her.

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The next morning, she woke up and took him home.

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She recalls that he asked her to drop him off

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away from his home. A couple of weeks later, after

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she told doctor Matthews she would not meet with him again.

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Get this, get ready, y'all, he sent her photos of

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her naked in the hot tub. Holy shit, you're a

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spoke with Victim D. On April twenty fourth of twenty

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twenty three. Victim D stated she had a sexual assault

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nurse examination completed in twenty twenty after being sexually assaulted.

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At that time, she elected to proceed as an anonymous

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report and then changed to a medical report only. Victim

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D stated she is now coming forward to identify her

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assailant as Stephen Matthews. She said they had matched on

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hinge and he agreed to meet her at a park

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in the Uptown area and to walk their dogs. That

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park was Benedict Fountain Park at twentieth and Lugan. He

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asked her if she wanted to watch the sunset at

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his place, and she went there with him. Computer checks

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showed doctor Matthews living at nineteen thirty five Logan Street

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at that time. She said he took her to the

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rooftop area and then went to get things from his apartment.

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She said he was going for a long period of time,

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but eventually he came back with a drink for her

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in a large cup. In a jinga game, she said

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that she had noticed that there were dares written on

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the jinga pieces that they appeared to be in different

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people's handwriting. When she drew a blank piece, doctor Matthew

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asked her to write a dare on it. She took

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a sip or two of the drink and said that

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it tasted bad. She eventually told him she needed to

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leave and said she would help him take things back

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to his apartment. Once inside. She said she was going

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to leave, but he asked her to stay for just

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five more minutes. She agreed and sat down. Victim D

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reported that her next memory is crawling across his bedroom floor.

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She was naked and yelling at him, asking what he did.

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She said, she got dressed, got her dog, and fled

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the apartment. She called her sister in law to pick

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her up, and she was taken to the hospital for

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a sexual assault and nurse examination. On April nineteenth of

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twenty twenty three, year A FAE received a call from

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victim E. Victim ME reported a few years ago, somewhere

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between the fall of twenty twenty and the spring of

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twenty twenty one, she met doctor Matthews on Hinge. He

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suggested she come to the hospital so they could hook

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up there, and that many other women had done it.

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She declined, but eventually agreed to meet him at his

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residence in Uptown, Denver. He talked about liking BDSM and

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choking and said that she would not want to know

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what type of porn he likes to watch. Victim Me

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00:33:31,799 --> 00:33:37,240
stated that everything happened on this occasion was consensual. However,

480
00:33:37,759 --> 00:33:40,799
she went over to doctor matthews residence a second time.

481
00:33:41,599 --> 00:33:44,839
On that occasion, doctor Matthews gave her a drink, which

482
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:49,279
she believed may have been tequila. After that, she blacked

483
00:33:49,279 --> 00:33:53,519
out and does not remember anything at that point. Her

484
00:33:53,559 --> 00:33:56,839
next memory was waking up at her home. She said

485
00:33:56,839 --> 00:34:00,160
that she had planned on having sex with him, but

486
00:34:00,279 --> 00:34:04,000
did not remember anything. On April twenty first of twenty

487
00:34:04,039 --> 00:34:08,320
twenty three, You're a Fan spoke with Victim F. Victim

488
00:34:08,519 --> 00:34:11,840
F called and said that she had been with doctor

489
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,679
Matthews in the past. She said that she went to

490
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,559
his residence, which she later said was in the twenty

491
00:34:17,599 --> 00:34:21,559
two hundred block of West thirtieth Avenue, the top left

492
00:34:21,679 --> 00:34:25,480
unit of the building on January twenty second of twenty

493
00:34:25,519 --> 00:34:28,519
twenty two, because she had agreed to watch his house

494
00:34:28,599 --> 00:34:32,199
and dog while he went out of town. On that date,

495
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:34,239
she went to his house to get a key and

496
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:37,719
he offered her a shot of tequila. After that, he

497
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,599
wanted to eat, so they went to a restaurant. She

498
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:43,280
thought he may have bought her a drink there as well.

499
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:47,280
VICTIMTH reported that she began to feel ill and went

500
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,840
to the restroom, where she became violently ill. She could

501
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,480
not keep her head up and the restaurant staff wanted

502
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:56,360
to call nine one one. She called a roommate for

503
00:34:56,400 --> 00:35:00,000
a ride and left. Victim MeV said that her roommate

504
00:35:00,199 --> 00:35:04,360
told her she was completely incoherent. Victims said she was

505
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:09,039
not sexually assaulted, but believes that doctor Matthews drugged her.

506
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,920
On April twentieth of twenty twenty three, Yure spoke with

507
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:17,360
Victim G. There's so many victim y'all, I'm losing track

508
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:20,440
of where I am in the alphabet. Victim G called

509
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:22,960
and said that she matched with Matthews on the dating

510
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,360
app tender in May of twenty twenty two. They went

511
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,719
on a hike and then went back to his place,

512
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:32,639
which she later said was off of Wydott and she

513
00:35:32,679 --> 00:35:36,239
thought it was possibly between thirty fourth and thirty sixth Avenue.

514
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,960
She described the block as having a church on one

515
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,599
corner in a restaurant on the other. She said they

516
00:35:41,679 --> 00:35:45,159
drank tequila and she only remembers having two or three shots.

517
00:35:45,599 --> 00:35:48,559
They played jinga and then she remembered him waking her

518
00:35:48,639 --> 00:35:51,480
up at eight pm and telling her she needed to leave.

519
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:53,920
She asked him what happened and he told her that

520
00:35:54,119 --> 00:35:56,840
she passed out and that she must have been tired.

521
00:35:57,159 --> 00:35:59,679
Victim GEN said that she was clothed when he woke

522
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:02,559
her and she did not have evidence that anything happened,

523
00:36:02,599 --> 00:36:05,119
but there was a block of about four hours she

524
00:36:05,199 --> 00:36:09,880
cannot remember. I mean, this is crazy, y'all. On April

525
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:15,679
nineteenth of twenty twenty three, Victim H called the Denver

526
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:20,360
Police Department Sex Crimes hotline and spoke with Detective Reuben Gnardo.

527
00:36:21,559 --> 00:36:24,679
Victim H reported that she had matched with doctor Matthews

528
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:27,039
on the dating app Tender and they agreed to meet

529
00:36:28,119 --> 00:36:30,880
on May twenty fifth, of twenty twenty two. They met

530
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:34,719
at a park around two pm. After hanging out there,

531
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,960
doctor Matthews said that the view from his apartment was

532
00:36:38,039 --> 00:36:40,840
good at that time of day and invited her back

533
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:44,039
to his place to play games. She stated that she

534
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:47,519
drove him and his dog to his place, which was

535
00:36:47,559 --> 00:36:50,159
only a few blocks from the park, and once there,

536
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:53,760
she had at least two shots of an alcoholic broverge.

537
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,679
Victim H reported that she and doctor Matthews played a

538
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:59,639
game and the next thing she remembered she was waking

539
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:03,039
up that one am in his bed. She reported having

540
00:37:03,119 --> 00:37:05,639
a vague memory of him being on top of her

541
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,960
and kissing her. On April nineteenth of twenty twenty three,

542
00:37:10,039 --> 00:37:14,079
You're A spoke with victim I. Victim I called him

543
00:37:14,119 --> 00:37:16,920
reported she went on a date with doctor Matthews on

544
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:21,079
February fifth of twenty twenty three, and y'all, that's after

545
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:26,320
he was fucking arrested the first time, but I'll continue on.

546
00:37:26,639 --> 00:37:29,840
After they met on Hinge, she said that he invited

547
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:33,159
her back to his residence at Low High near thirty Street,

548
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:35,559
and that he wanted to play Jinga with her, hang

549
00:37:35,639 --> 00:37:40,360
out in the hot tub, and drink Mimosa's. He also

550
00:37:40,559 --> 00:37:43,679
told her that she could bring her dog once there.

551
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:47,320
Victim I reported that Doctor Stevens tried to get her

552
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:50,360
to drink something he had made, but she declined. She

553
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:53,639
said that when they played Jinga there were things written

554
00:37:53,679 --> 00:37:56,400
on the jinga pieces, like in the game Truth or Dare.

555
00:37:57,079 --> 00:37:59,800
She said that he got touchy when they were in

556
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:03,320
the hot tub. She began to feel very uncomfortable and

557
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:08,039
decided to leave. She said that she subsequently realized that

558
00:38:08,159 --> 00:38:11,559
he was the same person who had sexually assaulted her

559
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:16,599
friend three years earlier. On May first of twenty twenty three,

560
00:38:16,679 --> 00:38:21,039
year of spoke to Victim Jay. Victim J called to

561
00:38:21,119 --> 00:38:23,960
report that she had gone on a date with doctor Matthews.

562
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,280
She said they met on tender in May or June

563
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,000
of twenty twenty two, and he asked her to come

564
00:38:30,079 --> 00:38:33,000
to Denver to meet. They were going to have coffee

565
00:38:33,039 --> 00:38:35,800
at a coffee shop near his house and take their

566
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:39,400
dogs to a nearby park. After meaning, he invited her

567
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:43,159
to his home and they walked there they played ladder ball.

568
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:47,000
I've never heard of that, and he then invited her

569
00:38:47,079 --> 00:38:49,800
up to his home to play jinga. She agreed, and

570
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:53,119
while playing, she noticed that the pieces had dares written

571
00:38:53,159 --> 00:38:56,920
on them, like take a shot. She remembered taking one

572
00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,800
shot and may have had a part of a white claw.

573
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:04,519
After that, things got fuzzy. She did not know what happened,

574
00:39:04,639 --> 00:39:07,519
but she ended up with bite marks on her arms.

575
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,599
She said she had met with him at about eleven

576
00:39:10,679 --> 00:39:13,880
thirty am, but did not feel able to drive home,

577
00:39:14,079 --> 00:39:17,880
so she had to spend the night. Based on these facts,

578
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:24,599
your fate is requesting an arrest warrant. Holy shit, y'all?

579
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:31,039
Is that not crazy? And you notice his mo is

580
00:39:31,079 --> 00:39:33,719
the same in every one of these cases. Let's play

581
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,239
jinga and why did he have him play jinga because

582
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,440
he had the dares written on those one of those

583
00:39:38,519 --> 00:39:42,400
dares being take a shot and the shot had the

584
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:48,199
drug in it. Right, What a fucking psycho. So it's

585
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:52,800
not looking good for doctor Matthews right, Well, it would

586
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:58,360
get worse, much much worse. Before the dust settled, Doctor

587
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:03,760
Matthews would be I'm the most prolific serial rapist in

588
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:10,000
the history of the state of Colorado. So more information

589
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:14,079
is discovered when he shows up to enter his plea

590
00:40:14,559 --> 00:40:19,000
on the second arrest, And that was on October fifth

591
00:40:19,159 --> 00:40:24,679
of twenty twenty three, and the Denver newspaper read like this,

592
00:40:25,159 --> 00:40:29,000
A Denver cardiologist accused of drugging and sexually assaulting women

593
00:40:29,079 --> 00:40:32,079
he met through dating apps, was arraigned on more than

594
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:37,920
fifty felony counts. On Friday, Doctor Stephen Matthews, thirty five,

595
00:40:38,079 --> 00:40:42,559
a board certified cardiologist and internal medicine physician, pleaded not

596
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:47,480
guilty to fifty one counts, including sexual assault and drugging.

597
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:51,000
Matthews was first arrested in March on three counts of

598
00:40:51,039 --> 00:40:54,079
sexual assault. And I've already told y'all all of that.

599
00:40:54,679 --> 00:40:57,320
In the initial case, a woman told police she met

600
00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:00,000
Matthews on hinge and blacked out while on a day

601
00:41:00,199 --> 00:41:04,199
with him. Douglas Cone, one of Matthew's attorneys, said in

602
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:06,960
April that Matthews was innocent and claimed there was a

603
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:12,079
failure to fully investigate the case. The accuser's story simply

604
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:16,719
don't add up. Police admitted from their arrest affidavit many

605
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:20,880
details that contradict her claim of no consent, and he's

606
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:25,719
talking about the first victim. Matthews was released with custody

607
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:28,480
on a fifty thousand dollars buying for the March arrest.

608
00:41:28,679 --> 00:41:31,760
Following media reports on his arrest. In that case, more

609
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:35,920
women were reported being drugged and or sexually assaulted. He

610
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:39,639
was arrested again in May after nine more women came forward,

611
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:42,679
with most meeting him on hinge or tender as far

612
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:46,920
back as twenty nineteen. Several of the women reported filling

613
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,960
ill on dates with Matthews at his home and then

614
00:41:50,039 --> 00:41:54,039
blacking out. One reported her next memory was crawling across

615
00:41:54,079 --> 00:41:57,760
his bedroom floor naked and yelling at him. Another woman

616
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:01,599
told police she had become ill while on a date

617
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:04,719
at a restaurant. Matthews is being held on a five

618
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,960
million dollar bond at a Denver jail and is scheduled

619
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:12,119
to next imperiod court on December twenty eighth for emotions hearing.

620
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:16,199
The arrangement comes after a judge world last month that

621
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:19,360
there was enough evidence for Matthews to stand trial in

622
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,920
the case. Steven Berg with the Berg Simpson Law firm,

623
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,639
which is representing some of the women in civil court,

624
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:28,559
said that he planned to follow a lawsuit once criminal

625
00:42:28,599 --> 00:42:32,440
proceedings are over, alleging Matthews was never removed from the

626
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:37,039
dating apps despite being reported for sexual assault, and that's

627
00:42:37,079 --> 00:42:39,639
what I was wanting to get at here. They planned

628
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:43,000
to name the match Group, a parent company of Hinge

629
00:42:43,039 --> 00:42:46,480
and Tender, as a defendant. Generally, I would just say

630
00:42:46,639 --> 00:42:49,400
that he was being reported early on in the process

631
00:42:49,519 --> 00:42:53,719
and on the dating app for years after being reported

632
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:58,000
as a rapist. So this some bitch people were getting

633
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:01,079
in touch with Hinge and Tender and saying, Hey, this asshole,

634
00:43:01,159 --> 00:43:03,079
I think he raped me. I blacked out, So I

635
00:43:03,079 --> 00:43:07,079
don't have any proof, but I blacked out should be enough, right,

636
00:43:08,119 --> 00:43:12,559
Yet they didn't even cancel this dude's account after being reported.

637
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:17,719
But y'all, fifty felony counts against this guy, So not

638
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:20,440
only now is the city of Denver in the state

639
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:24,679
of Colorado just reeling over all of this. But with

640
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:28,880
this new information, the story is catching on nationally. I mean,

641
00:43:29,079 --> 00:43:34,039
this is a damn hard doctor right well, as I

642
00:43:34,079 --> 00:43:37,360
see happen all the time. The more popular of the case,

643
00:43:38,039 --> 00:43:41,800
the more details will leak. And some pretty sick details

644
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:45,480
regarding this asshole emerged. And one article that caught my

645
00:43:45,519 --> 00:43:49,480
eye referenced the use of his dog in his sick game.

646
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:54,719
And here's how that article read. From a Denver newspaper

647
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:58,719
on October thirteenth of twenty twenty three, the attorney for

648
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:02,760
victims of a Denver cardiologist accused of meeting women on

649
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:05,800
dating apps, then drugging and raping them, says there could

650
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:09,440
be upwards of sixty victims involved in a civil case

651
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:14,039
against the doctor. Doctor Stephen Matthews, thirty six, faces fifty

652
00:44:14,079 --> 00:44:17,199
one felon accounts in a criminal court in connection with

653
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:21,559
thirteen victims. He has entered a not guilty plea If

654
00:44:21,639 --> 00:44:24,440
y'all notice those victims went up because more people were

655
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:28,280
coming forward. Prosecutors say that as early as twenty nineteen,

656
00:44:28,519 --> 00:44:31,320
Matthews would meet with women he met on dating apps

657
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:34,840
and then slipped something into their drink. The victims would

658
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:38,000
often black out or become disoriented, which led to them

659
00:44:38,039 --> 00:44:41,280
being unable to remember most of the encounters with Matthews.

660
00:44:42,039 --> 00:44:44,840
Police arresting him in March of twenty twenty three, and

661
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:47,840
he is now being held in a five million dollar bond,

662
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:51,000
with his criminal trial expected to get under way in

663
00:44:51,079 --> 00:44:55,480
March of twenty twenty four. Stephen Berg, representing dozens of

664
00:44:55,599 --> 00:44:58,920
victims in the civil case, said he would build trust

665
00:44:59,039 --> 00:45:01,880
and give them a drink, usually close to his home,

666
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:06,679
and then drug them. They would be very, very impaired

667
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:09,079
and not know what's going on, and he would sexually

668
00:45:09,079 --> 00:45:12,519
assault them. He was savvy and able to build trust.

669
00:45:12,599 --> 00:45:15,159
He'd say, let's meet in a public place and talk

670
00:45:15,159 --> 00:45:18,599
about his dog, and then oftentimes use that as an

671
00:45:18,639 --> 00:45:21,760
excuse to head back to his house or apartment. He

672
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,719
would say he needed to walk his dog or feed

673
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:28,800
his dog. Berg said the women who didn't know what

674
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:31,719
had happened to them heard stories from other victims, and

675
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:34,480
then things started to click in the place for them.

676
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:37,519
They wanted to put this all behind them, but now

677
00:45:37,599 --> 00:45:40,280
they want to make sure and stand up and provide

678
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:44,360
some change. So this doesn't happen again. You know, quite frankly,

679
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:46,800
every time a story is run on this, there are

680
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:50,079
more and more survivors coming forward saying, Oh my gosh,

681
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:52,480
I'm hearing about this for the first time, and I

682
00:45:52,519 --> 00:45:55,199
want to do my part to make sure this doesn't happen.

683
00:45:56,159 --> 00:45:58,360
Some of these survivors are going to have to talk

684
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:00,800
to about some of the most person things in their

685
00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:05,679
life in a public setting. I'm inspired by their strength, etc.

686
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:10,480
Match Group owns about eighty percent of the online dating

687
00:46:10,559 --> 00:46:13,559
market share, and they own a number of specific apps,

688
00:46:13,559 --> 00:46:16,920
including engine Tender and so you know. One of the

689
00:46:17,199 --> 00:46:20,440
failures of match Group was when Matthew was reported as

690
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:23,880
a rapist. He continued to be on their website for

691
00:46:24,159 --> 00:46:29,400
multiple years. Afterward. Bird said the report was made by

692
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:32,760
a victim of an assault, but it was before criminal

693
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:36,239
charges were filed. The victim was told Matthews will be

694
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:39,199
removed from the app, but Bird says that didn't happen.

695
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:41,800
What's been reported is horrible and has no place on

696
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:47,559
our platforms, that from match Group. So there you have it.

697
00:46:47,679 --> 00:46:51,320
The whole nation at this point knows about all this.

698
00:46:51,559 --> 00:46:51,840
Speaker 2: Now.

699
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:57,079
Speaker 3: Doctor Matthews, y'all, he lived when he was arrested in

700
00:46:57,159 --> 00:47:02,320
a very upscale apartment building, not a house. So if

701
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:05,639
you're doing this sort of thing, it's probably a little

702
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:09,239
harder to hide it with people coming and going right,

703
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:12,199
especially remember that affidavit I just read you. How many

704
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:15,400
people were coming and going, how many ladies? What would

705
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:20,159
the neighbors think? Well, in this next club, his neighbor

706
00:47:20,559 --> 00:47:24,960
in that building describes what she saw and thought.

707
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:28,760
Speaker 5: Listen to this definitely had a reputation of being a player,

708
00:47:30,599 --> 00:47:33,880
just girl after girl after girl. Almost every time they

709
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:37,320
came home. There was, you know, girl shoes outside his apartment.

710
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:41,079
Every time he saw him either at the pool with

711
00:47:41,119 --> 00:47:44,000
a different girl, kind of the foot traffic in and

712
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:45,800
out was just girls in, girls out.

713
00:47:46,079 --> 00:47:49,719
Speaker 3: Now, as time went on, it got worse for this

714
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:54,559
neighbor and very disturbing. One night, that same neighbor, she

715
00:47:54,599 --> 00:47:57,000
walks out of her apartment and right in front of

716
00:47:57,039 --> 00:48:01,320
his door. She saw what she did scribes in the

717
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next club, and even took a picture which she supplied

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to police. And here's what she sounded like, describing that.

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Speaker 5: Face down, topless, completely passed out. I just came across her,

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and again, there was something in me that made me

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even think to take a photo to begin with.

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Speaker 3: In this picture, y'all, I've seen it. It's shocking. This

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00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:32,320
lady has passed out nothing but a thong, sprawled out

724
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:36,880
in front of this assholes front door. I mean, how

725
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:40,760
arrogant did this guy have to be just to leave

726
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:43,559
the girl in front of his front door like that

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in an apartment building. So the trial starts for Steven Matthews.

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This is on July fifteenth of twenty twenty four, and

729
00:48:54,159 --> 00:48:56,760
there were no TV cueris a lot in for this one,

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00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:01,760
which I think was the right decision. These are sexual

731
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assault victims and they deserved to have their identity protected. Now,

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during this trial, many of the women testified about their experience,

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and I'm going to reference an article now that covers

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the testimony of one of these women who recounted her

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date with Stephen Matthews. A woman who met Stephen Matthews

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on a dating app and subsequently got together with him

737
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:30,280
in twenty twenty three, testified Wednesday in a Denver court

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room that she believed the cardiologist spiked the drink he

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made for her home. She said the drink left her incapacitated,

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00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,880
hindered her ability to walk and speak, and that after

741
00:49:40,039 --> 00:49:42,599
drinking with the doctor, she had little memory of what

742
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happened next. She testified what happened left her traumatized and upset.

743
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The woman who appeared Wednesday met Matthews on the dating

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00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:55,760
app hinge. They met at a restaurant where she had

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tequila in a mixed drink. Following that, she went with

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Matthews to time was town home, where she was offered tequila,

747
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which she did not see him prepare. She said after

748
00:50:08,199 --> 00:50:12,000
ingesting a small portion of the drink, she became incapacitated

749
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and said he put me in a headlock position I

750
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couldn't escape from and kissed me. Under direct examination, the

751
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woman said she lost control of her body, the ability

752
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to walk and speak, and does not have memories of

753
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:30,480
large portions of the night. She took a neighbor home,

754
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threw up in the car, and recalled waking up on

755
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the bathroom floor with vomit in the bathtub. The woman

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testified she had never had a reaction like that from

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00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:46,159
drinking alcohol. The woman said she felt nauseous, dizzy, confused, afraid,

758
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and drove herself to an urgent care facility the day

759
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:52,760
after a date seeking a drug test for a possible

760
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:56,440
date rape drug. The facility did not have the material

761
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for testing and suggested she go to the hospital, but

762
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she declined. I was feeling traumatized and upset, and I

763
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wanted to be at home where I felt safe, she said.

764
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She said what happened really scared her. She later reported

765
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:15,719
what happened to the hinge dating app, filed an anonymous

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complaint with the Colorado Medical Board, and told her primary

767
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:24,199
care physician what happened. When police searched Matthew's cellphone following

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his arrest, they found a video he had taken of

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00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:30,800
the very woman doing a cartwheel in his townhouse on

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00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:33,280
the night in question. I don't have any memory of

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00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:37,199
that moment in time or the video taken, she testified.

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00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:40,960
Under cross examination by Matthew's defense team, The woman was

773
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asked about a fall she had taken a week or

774
00:51:43,599 --> 00:51:46,440
two prior to the date. She said she had slipped

775
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:49,039
on some ice while walking her dog, fell and hit

776
00:51:49,079 --> 00:51:52,199
her head. The defense seemed to be trying to suggest

777
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:56,840
her symptoms on that night in question could be traced

778
00:51:56,880 --> 00:52:01,559
back to the earlier fall. Juror also asked questions about

779
00:52:01,559 --> 00:52:04,400
the fall. Was it a hard fall. Did you receive

780
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:09,079
bruising or swelling? No, responded the witness. Another juror asked

781
00:52:09,079 --> 00:52:11,840
if Matthews had permission to take the pictures or video

782
00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:15,559
of her, and she responded, I did not give him permission.

783
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The trials scheduled to run through the end the next month,

784
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and Matthews is chasing thirty eight charges and is being

785
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:27,000
held in jail on a five million dollar bond. Wow. So,

786
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:30,079
something else I found interesting in this case is that

787
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the mother of one of the victims was able to

788
00:52:32,559 --> 00:52:35,880
tell her story on the stand during the trial. I

789
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:39,519
just could not imagine dealing with this as a parent

790
00:52:39,559 --> 00:52:43,800
of two girls myself. And it was covered in the

791
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:48,760
Denver paper. And here's what that experience sounded like. The

792
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:51,159
mother of a woman who went on a date with

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00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:55,960
doctor Stephen Matthews testified Thursday morning that after seeing her

794
00:52:56,039 --> 00:52:59,960
daughter following the date, she suspected there was a big problem.

795
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:03,880
I'm feeling like she's been drugged and sexually assaulted. The

796
00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:07,639
mother testified, recounting her feelings at that time. She was

797
00:53:07,679 --> 00:53:11,480
not making sense, she was so dazed. The testimonty came

798
00:53:11,519 --> 00:53:15,239
as part of the prosecution's case against the Denver cardiologists,

799
00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:19,199
who was facing thirty eight felony charges for allegedly drugging

800
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:23,199
eleven women and then sexually assaulting nine of them. Matthews

801
00:53:23,239 --> 00:53:27,039
is pleaded not guilty to the chargers. The women generally

802
00:53:27,119 --> 00:53:30,280
met Matthews via dating apps like Hinge and Tender, but

803
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:33,079
say after going on a date with him, they believe

804
00:53:33,159 --> 00:53:36,400
he pampered with their drinks, leaving them with memory laws

805
00:53:36,639 --> 00:53:39,920
in some cases, illness, and physical signs that they had

806
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:44,079
been assaulted. One woman who met Matthews on Hinge said

807
00:53:44,079 --> 00:53:46,039
that she went on a brunch date with him in

808
00:53:46,159 --> 00:53:49,840
January of twenty twenty three. She said after mimosa's at

809
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:52,960
a restaurant, she then went to his West Denver home,

810
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:56,599
where she had another mimosa that she said Matthews prepared.

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00:53:56,800 --> 00:54:00,000
The woman said she soon began feeling poorly and lost

812
00:54:00,119 --> 00:54:03,360
memory the rest of the date. Matthews later claimed the

813
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:06,159
woman agreed to have consensual sex with him and then

814
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:09,599
vomited him multiple times. Her mother, who has been a

815
00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:13,440
nurse for forty two years, sat on the stand her

816
00:54:13,519 --> 00:54:16,320
daughter was not making sense in a phone conversation, and

817
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:20,039
she went to her daughter's apartment. She looked really dazed,

818
00:54:20,079 --> 00:54:22,800
didn't know where she was. She said her daughter was

819
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:26,119
foggy and it was terrifying. Her mother took her to

820
00:54:26,159 --> 00:54:29,920
the hospital for a rape examination, which the mother described

821
00:54:29,960 --> 00:54:34,480
as horrific. Sheer, anguish, unbearable. She said her daughter told

822
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:37,360
a nurse, I think I was drugged and sexually assaulted.

823
00:54:38,159 --> 00:54:41,079
The daughter later said she discovered Hickey's on her chest,

824
00:54:41,199 --> 00:54:44,880
but did not recall having the kind of physical interaction

825
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:50,280
with Matthews. On cross examination, Matthew's attorney Douglas Combe, raised

826
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:53,800
the issue of alleged victim's use of marijuana, which shut

827
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:57,599
up in scientific testing. Combe pressed the woman's mother and

828
00:54:57,639 --> 00:55:01,440
her daughter's drinking habits, which the my mother said were minimal.

829
00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:04,280
And that's pretty pathetic, y'all. I mean, I know he

830
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:07,119
has to do his job as a defense attorney, but

831
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:12,760
he's basically saying, because this girl smoked marijuana, you know,

832
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:17,559
maybe that's why she forgot she got raped. Disgusting and

833
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:21,519
earlier Thursday testimony, a friend of the alleged victim who

834
00:55:21,639 --> 00:55:24,079
saw her after the date said she had seen the

835
00:55:24,119 --> 00:55:27,760
woman drunk before, but that this was different. I never

836
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:30,519
saw her disoriented like this. It was clear to me

837
00:55:30,639 --> 00:55:36,119
that something was wrong. So that is a mother's perspective

838
00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:40,280
on that. So the prosecutors rest their case and the

839
00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:45,280
defense rest their case. And on August twelfth of twenty

840
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:52,880
twenty four, doctor Stephen Matthews has found guilty on thirty

841
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:59,000
five of thirty eight counts of rape against eleven different women.

842
00:56:00,079 --> 00:56:03,320
And here is how that read in the Denver Paper.

843
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:08,719
A former Denver cardiologist charged with drugging and sexually assaulting

844
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:12,639
nearly a dozen women, was found guilty on Tuesday on

845
00:56:12,719 --> 00:56:15,880
all but three counts that were brought against him. Stephen

846
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:20,519
Matthews was convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting multiple women,

847
00:56:20,719 --> 00:56:23,760
and was originally arrested in March of twenty twenty three

848
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:26,679
after a woman first reported to Denver police she was

849
00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:30,440
drugged during a brunch date and sexually assaulted at his home.

850
00:56:30,639 --> 00:56:33,559
Two months later, Matthews was arrested for a second time

851
00:56:33,639 --> 00:56:37,800
after nine more women came forward with similar allegations, reporting

852
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:40,880
that they met Matthews online and after agreeing to meet

853
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:45,320
for drinks, lost large portions of their memory. The allegations

854
00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:49,719
date back to twenty nineteen. In total, eleven women came

855
00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:53,239
forward with allegations of Matthews drugging them. Nine of them

856
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:56,960
reported sexual assaults to the police, facing thirty eight charges.

857
00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:01,360
In total, Prosecutors presented dozens of witnesses and hundreds of

858
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:04,920
pieces of evidence to the jury. Stephen Matthews had a

859
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:08,519
deliberate and very particular way of identifying and selecting the

860
00:57:08,559 --> 00:57:12,480
targets that would eventually perpetrate against him, set a prosecutor

861
00:57:12,559 --> 00:57:16,480
during closing arguments, this is an obvious, obvious case of

862
00:57:16,519 --> 00:57:20,159
a man who feels entitled to perpetray against women for

863
00:57:20,199 --> 00:57:24,480
his own benefit by robbing them of memory, by robbing

864
00:57:24,519 --> 00:57:28,440
them of bodily autonomy, and by impairing their memories, only

865
00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:31,920
to have them come in and testify and criticize them

866
00:57:31,960 --> 00:57:36,440
for the fact that their memories don't exist. The defense

867
00:57:36,599 --> 00:57:40,920
argued that the prosecution's case lacked evidence merely getting up

868
00:57:40,920 --> 00:57:43,840
here and telling a story. It's evidence for you to consider,

869
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:46,639
but it's not proof beyond a reasonable doubt unless you

870
00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:49,639
think it is. It's just an accusation. It's just an

871
00:57:49,719 --> 00:57:53,800
allegation that from the defense attorney. Don't let the volume

872
00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:58,320
of accusations override your common sense and your reasonableness. During

873
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:02,000
the verdict. Tuesday, Matthew was found guilty on thirty five

874
00:58:02,039 --> 00:58:05,440
of thirty eight counts. His boond was also revoked following

875
00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:08,840
a request from prosecutors, so they're not going to allow

876
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:11,840
him to bond out and then come back to get sentenced,

877
00:58:12,039 --> 00:58:15,039
which is good because he probably all last right. Stephen

878
00:58:15,079 --> 00:58:17,960
Matthews took advantage of nearly a dozen women in the

879
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:22,199
most egregious way imaginable, and for that he will now

880
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:27,159
pay a significant price, said Denver Da Beth McCann in

881
00:58:27,239 --> 00:58:31,239
a prepared statement. I hope today's verty provides a measure

882
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:34,800
of comfort to all the victims, whose courage throughout this

883
00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:39,119
case should be an inspiration to all of us. And

884
00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:47,159
sentencing for doctor Stephen Matthews is scheduled for October twenty fifth,

885
00:58:47,239 --> 00:58:53,840
of twenty twenty four at one thirty pm. Mean, y'all,

886
00:58:55,360 --> 00:59:02,039
it was so bad that it took the judgeeen minutes

887
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:07,159
just to read out all of the guilty verdicts against

888
00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:12,239
doctor Stephen Matthews. This cardiologist, who I'm sure worked very

889
00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:16,719
hard to get his education at the age of thirty six,

890
00:59:17,599 --> 00:59:23,639
through it all away and in the process became the

891
00:59:23,719 --> 00:59:29,079
worst serial rapist in Colorado history and one of the

892
00:59:29,119 --> 00:59:34,320
worst in United States history. So I told y'all at

893
00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:37,679
the start that I had my own idea of why

894
00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:42,119
Stephen Matthews chose dating apps to lure his victims. And

895
00:59:42,159 --> 00:59:46,440
for me, I think he looked at dating apps as

896
00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:50,519
a way to commit these acts without having an emotional

897
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:55,679
connection to the victim. He didn't know them on any level,

898
00:59:56,639 --> 01:00:00,840
and so in his mind, he could all of these

899
01:00:00,880 --> 01:00:06,840
things and not feel guilty for it. I also think

900
01:00:07,119 --> 01:00:10,719
that he was such a narcissist that he felt that

901
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:14,480
if these women were on dating apps that they were

902
01:00:14,519 --> 01:00:18,559
more desperate for a partner than someone who was not,

903
01:00:20,039 --> 01:00:26,519
and looked at these women as easy targets. Now, single

904
01:00:26,559 --> 01:00:30,800
ladies out there, I'm talking to you right now because

905
01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:34,760
I love y'all. Y'all are listening to my podcast, and

906
01:00:35,039 --> 01:00:38,679
I really do care about every single person that listens.

907
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:42,239
It takes the time to listen to me when I'm

908
01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:46,639
behind a microphone. So I'm talking to you, ladies. Single ladies,

909
01:00:48,199 --> 01:00:55,360
be extra careful on dating apps. This is where these

910
01:00:56,159 --> 01:01:05,719
sick assholes are lurking. Unfortunately, technology has made it much

911
01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:13,079
easier for sexual predators to find their prey. Most of

912
01:01:13,119 --> 01:01:17,119
the people on these apps are good people, right, But

913
01:01:17,199 --> 01:01:21,960
I promise you there's some sickos on there, just like

914
01:01:22,079 --> 01:01:25,119
this one. And if you do meet someone, meet them

915
01:01:25,159 --> 01:01:29,440
in a public setting, and sometimes that won't even save you.

916
01:01:29,960 --> 01:01:34,320
Doctor Matthews he always met these women in public settings,

917
01:01:35,280 --> 01:01:41,679
but never go back to their house, never leave an

918
01:01:41,800 --> 01:01:47,840
unattended drink around them, and never accept a drink from them.

919
01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:53,840
If you meet someone through a dating app, assume, just

920
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:58,920
assume they have bad intentions and make them prove otherwise.

921
01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:03,039
The good one that are worth it, they don't mind

922
01:02:03,199 --> 01:02:06,320
having to prove to you that they're good peeps. So

923
01:02:07,079 --> 01:02:12,280
I will definitely update all of you once this piece

924
01:02:12,400 --> 01:02:29,400
of shit gets sentenced, and before I get out of here.

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Another episode of Murderal series is headed your way on Tuesday.

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