About This Episode
What is this episode about?
The Sutherland Springs Mass Shooting - November 5 2026, an episode of Morning Cup of Murder, covers the 2017 church massacre in Sutherland Springs, Texas, in which Devin Patrick Kelley Kills a devastating number of churchgoers. On November 5th, 2017, a man walked into a church and committed a mass shooting that the episode frames as a crime that should never have been able to happen, or at the very least should have been far more difficult to carry out, had the proper paperwork been filed.
The episode focuses specifically on the administrative and background-check failures that preceded the shooting, presenting the massacre as a case study in how bureaucratic oversight can have deadly consequences. It treats the attack not only as an act of individual violence but as an example of a systemic breakdown that enabled it.
Hosts and release
Korina Biemesderfer hosts Morning Cup of Murder, a daily true crime podcast that looks back each day at a criminal case tied to that exact calendar date, drawing from a catalogue of more than 2000 episodes. This installment, released on November 5, 2026, runs 13 minutes and revisits the Sutherland Springs shooting on the anniversary of the attack, fitting the show's format of pairing daily dates with cases from true crime history.
