Dec. 19, 2024

The Suspension & Dr. Stephen Matthews

The Suspension & Dr. Stephen Matthews

In this weeks episode of Bloody Angola, Jim provides some clarification regarding the suspension of the BSL series and brings you the horrific story and incarceration of Dr. Stephen Matthews. 

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Season 7

In this weeks episode of Bloody Angola, Jim provides some clarification regarding the suspension of the BSL series and brings you the horrific story and incarceration of Dr. Stephen Matthews.

Exposed: Scandalous Files of the Elite can be found HERE:

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M I walked straight line shackle change, Oh weesome, gird

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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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As the hill stream game Wrangle three, come in by

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me or.

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Die inside these walls, inside the wild.

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Hadn't went no girls.

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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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I have a lot of love for the Cajun community

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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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are linked in that first episode, which will stay up,

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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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happen now, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to

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bring you something today. Unfortunately, I was not left with

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enough time to prepare what I would consider a good

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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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am also host of Exposed Scandalous Files of the Elite,

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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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of those is the episode that I'm bringing you today,

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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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of you that have not heard it, I'm going to

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

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we will not have an episode of Blooding in Goola.

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Dropping the day after Christmas is our typical drop day,

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but I'm not going to drop an episode the day

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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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Bloody and Gola. I have something really good planned. I'm

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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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if you do, go check out Expose Scandalous Files of

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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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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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we get into today's episode, I have a global celebrity

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member from our Patreon that I need to shout out.

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That is Miss Tiffany Lynn.

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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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the Patreon, I like to look at where you're coming from.

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And if I'm not familiar with that particular town, I

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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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There was a one bedroom cabin that he lived in.

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And Overland is also the home of the National Military

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

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It destroyed like eighteen million records, making it the single

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largest loss of government files in the history of the

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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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can pretty much tell you to take any drug on

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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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doctors in the world. And then there's doctor Stephen Matthews.

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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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January twenty ninth of twenty twenty three. The pair had breakfast,

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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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played jinga and they hung out in his hot tub.

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She said. After some time, she began to feel poorly

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and the last memory she had was being in that

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

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hours later, when she was at home and she's being

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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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In his story, he said the woman had two shots

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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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go to bed. He didn't mean to go to sleep right.

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She said that she did, and according to Matthews, they

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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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we go any further, let's talk about this. First off,

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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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That means he's smart, means he works hard, and honestly,

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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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But I'll explain exactly why dating apps were his thing

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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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Dannerous plea at this court date, and he enters what

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you would expect him to dinner and not guilty plea,

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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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he gets outside. It seems when he was out of

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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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Judicial District in Denver, Colorado, she releases a public statement

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following this second arrest, and this is really when this

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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

474
00:33:13.279 --> 00:33:15.640
up there, and that many other women had done it.

475
00:33:16.680 --> 00:33:19.599
She declined, but eventually agreed to meet him at his

476
00:33:19.759 --> 00:33:24.759
residence in Uptown, Denver. He talked about liking BDSM and

477
00:33:24.920 --> 00:33:27.599
choking and said that she would not want to know

478
00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:31.559
what type of porn he likes to watch. Victim Me

479
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
Now.

699
00:46:53.360 --> 00:46:57.079
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
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
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

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00:47:57.039 --> 00:48:01.320
his door. She saw what she did scribes in the

717
00:48:01.320 --> 00:48:05.800
next club, and even took a picture which she supplied

718
00:48:05.800 --> 00:48:10.920
to police. And here's what she sounded like, describing that.

719
00:48:11.320 --> 00:48:18.679
Face down, topless, completely passed out. I just came across her,

720
00:48:18.960 --> 00:48:21.719
and again, there was something in me that made me

721
00:48:21.800 --> 00:48:23.920
even think to take a photo to begin with.

722
00:48:24.360 --> 00:48:28.320
In this picture, y'all, I've seen it. It's shocking. This

723
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

727
00:48:43.800 --> 00:48:50.360
in an apartment building. So the trial starts for Steven Matthews.

728
00:48:50.400 --> 00:48:53.920
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,

730
00:48:57.320 --> 00:49:01.760
which I think was the right decision. These are sexual

731
00:49:01.800 --> 00:49:06.119
assault victims and they deserved to have their identity protected. Now,

732
00:49:06.920 --> 00:49:10.920
during this trial, many of the women testified about their experience,

733
00:49:10.960 --> 00:49:14.840
and I'm going to reference an article now that covers

734
00:49:14.920 --> 00:49:18.239
the testimony of one of these women who recounted her

735
00:49:18.320 --> 00:49:23.920
date with Stephen Matthews. A woman who met Stephen Matthews

736
00:49:23.920 --> 00:49:26.920
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

738
00:49:30.360 --> 00:49:33.000
room that she believed the cardiologist spiked the drink he

739
00:49:33.039 --> 00:49:36.800
made for her home. She said the drink left her incapacitated,

740
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
00:49:42.760 --> 00:49:48.159
happened next. She testified what happened left her traumatized and upset.

743
00:49:49.119 --> 00:49:52.719
The woman who appeared Wednesday met Matthews on the dating

744
00:49:52.760 --> 00:49:55.760
app hinge. They met at a restaurant where she had

745
00:49:55.800 --> 00:49:59.239
tequila in a mixed drink. Following that, she went with

746
00:49:59.400 --> 00:50:03.199
Matthews to time was town home, where she was offered tequila,

747
00:50:03.760 --> 00:50:08.000
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
00:50:12.119 --> 00:50:15.519
and said he put me in a headlock position I

750
00:50:15.559 --> 00:50:20.280
couldn't escape from and kissed me. Under direct examination, the

751
00:50:20.320 --> 00:50:23.800
woman said she lost control of her body, the ability

752
00:50:23.840 --> 00:50:26.679
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
00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:33.400
threw up in the car, and recalled waking up on

755
00:50:33.440 --> 00:50:37.320
the bathroom floor with vomit in the bathtub. The woman

756
00:50:37.440 --> 00:50:40.639
testified she had never had a reaction like that from

757
00:50:40.760 --> 00:50:46.159
drinking alcohol. The woman said she felt nauseous, dizzy, confused, afraid,

758
00:50:46.280 --> 00:50:49.280
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
00:50:56.559 --> 00:50:59.760
for testing and suggested she go to the hospital, but

762
00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:05.000
she declined. I was feeling traumatized and upset, and I

763
00:51:05.039 --> 00:51:07.519
wanted to be at home where I felt safe, she said.

764
00:51:07.679 --> 00:51:11.760
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

766
00:51:15.760 --> 00:51:19.320
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

768
00:51:24.199 --> 00:51:26.920
his arrest, they found a video he had taken of

769
00:51:26.960 --> 00:51:30.800
the very woman doing a cartwheel in his townhouse on

770
00:51:30.880 --> 00:51:33.280
the night in question. I don't have any memory of

771
00:51:33.360 --> 00:51:37.199
that moment in time or the video taken, she testified.

772
00:51:37.440 --> 00:51:40.960
Under cross examination by Matthew's defense team, The woman was

773
00:51:41.039 --> 00:51:43.599
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
00:52:16.519 --> 00:52:18.880
The trials scheduled to run through the end the next month,

784
00:52:18.960 --> 00:52:21.840
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
00:52:30.199 --> 00:52:32.519
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

793
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.

811
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.

925
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Another episode of Murderal series is headed your way on Tuesday.

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Patreon members, y'all get that early and commercial free in

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for that. And until next time. For exposed scandalous files

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of the elite, I'm your host, Jim Chapman, much love, M.