Epstein Files

November 15, 2025·48 min·4 clips

Heather and Dylan dive into the newly released Epstein documents and the political mudslinging surrounding them.

Y'all, it starts loose. Heather and Dylan open with a midweek crime-news recrap, where current events sit right next to the kind of host banter that makes the show feel half news rundown, half kitchen-table rant. Epstein comes first. A House committee has released thousands of Jeffrey Epstein-related documents, including emails sent to rich or influential friends and reporters over many years. Trump enters the story almost immediately. Heather explains that Democrats first released three emails mentioning President Donald Trump, while Republicans answered with a larger document release and accused them of cherry-picking. Dylan mostly lets the mess sit there and reacts as it gets uglier. The segment also reminds listeners that Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from someone under eighteen, served about a year, and still kept up relationships with influential people afterward. From there, the mood gets meaner. Another crime story involving a child brings open disgust from the hosts, and they do not bother sanding down the reaction. They call the person behind it a monster and mean it. That sets up the strangest case in the excerpt: the Nevada murder allegation against Devin Michaels, a former adult film actress. Henderson police charged the forty-five-year-old in connection with the death of forty-seven-year-old Jonathan Willett after officers found his decapitated body in his home. His head was missing. Heather and Dylan keep circling back to that part, along with the chemical smells and fumes reported from the body. Then the alleged motive makes the room tilt. Prosecutor John Giordani claims Michaels wanted Willett gone so she could build a new life with their children and her husband, who was Willett's son. Dylan answers with dry disbelief, because what else is there. By the end, the show eases back into its usual sideways rhythm, asking listeners to send decorated-house photos and joking about whether lights will actually go up. The goodbye turns bargain-pants bits, sextortion warnings, and the usual don't-kill signoff into one last crooked laugh after a grim run of news.

As heard by us

A blunt, banter-heavy crime-news roundup with sharp edges and little patience for predators.

Mountain Murders spends its midweek check-in on the Epstein document release, the committee fight over thousands of files, and the three emails that mention Donald Trump.

Read the full review in PlayNext →

Why you'd press play

Want a true-crime news recap that sounds like two people telling you the ugly truth on the porch?

Read the full recommendation in PlayNext →

Listen to the show on

Apple Podcasts Spotify

Play clips from this episode More from Mountain Murders