Overview

• Tya Adams told NewsNation she attended sex parties involving Judge Kevin Mullins and said she had sex with him in his chambers.
• Former deputy jailer Sarah Davis said Mullins invited her to a sex party and described hearing “nasty and sickening” stories involving staff and inmates.
• A 2022 recorded interview shows Sabrina Adkins saying she saw Mullins having sex in the chambers and that Deputy Ben Fields kept videotapes.
• A 2022 civil lawsuit alleges Fields coerced a woman into sex in Mullins’ chambers to avoid jail, while court records did not name Mullins as a defendant and he was never charged before his death.
• Former Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines is charged with murder of a public official in the Sept. 19, 2024 shooting captured on surveillance video and has pleaded not guilty, and investigators have not ruled out a sex scandal as a possible motive.