The unbelievable, bizarre saga of Robin Niceta a criminal brought to justice by a combination of a determined local politician and anonymous healthcare professionals on the medicine subreddit.

0:00 Introduction
1:02 Part 1: The Anonymous Tip
5:44 Part 2: The Brain Tumor
12:35 Part 3: r/medicine enters the chat
19:33 Part 4: A Return to Court
21:37 Epilogue
22:50 Conclusion

I'd like to thank a number of individuals for their willingness to discuss this case with me, including Ms. Jurinsky, several relevant lawyers, and a few individuals in Aurora who prefer to remain anonymous.

I appreciate that this video contains some relatively pointed criticism of a particular reporter. While that might seem harsh because he's certainly not the "bad guy" of this story, when I reached out to him about his error, he doubled down, the relevant video was removed from CBS Colorado's website without acknowledgment, his colleagues pretended his error was a good thing, and to the best of my knowledge he still hasn't apologized to Jurinsky.


References:

The Steffan Tubbs Show: https://710knus.com/radioshow/theste... (audio clip used with permission thanks Steffan!)

Niceta's arrest in May 2022:
Colorado Sun: https://coloradosun.com/2022/05/16/va...
Denver 7 News: https://www.denver7.com/news/localne...

Niceta's alleged sexual harassment of women she was investigating:
Denver 7 News: https://www.denver7.com/news/localne...
People: https://people.com/crime/socialworke...

Jurinsky's defamation lawsuit:
CBS Colorado: https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news...
The Denver Post: https://www.denverpost.com/2023/01/20...

Kristin Nichols lawsuit:
The Denver Post: https://www.denverpost.com/2023/01/26...
The Gazette: https://gazette.com/coloradowatch/co... (the details relevant to Nichols start about halfway through the article)

Initial hearing to discuss Niceta's brain tumor and competency:
The Denver Post: https://www.denverpost.com/2023/03/30...

Information on UT Austin Mass Murderer Charles Whitman:
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...
Brainmind.com: http://brainmind.com/Case5.html

Charles Whitman's suicide note: https://schoolshooters.info/sites/def...

CBS Colorado's April 28th story revealing Niceta's medical records and MRI: https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news... (Note: CBS Colorado appears to have removed the video of Maass' report from their website, but it is still present on questionably legal third party news aggregator sites). The relevant clips are used here under Fair Use for commentary and criticism. See: Hosseinzadeh v. Klein, 276 F.Supp.3d 34 (S.D.N.Y. 2017); Equals Three, LLC v. Jukin Media, Inc., 139 F. Supp. 3d 1094 (C.D. Cal. 2015). https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdc...

Reddit thread discussing Niceta's MRI (April 28, 2023):   / fake_medical_diagnosis_in_the_news_to_avoi...  

My Twitter thread proving that Niceta's MRI was fake (April 29, 2023):   / 1652499762594336768  

Original source of the coronal glioblastoma from Radiopaedia.org (posted May 2010): https://radiopaedia.org/cases/gliobla...

Original source of the sagital glioblastoma from Wikimedia Commons (posted Feb 2012): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

People v. Niceta (Case: D0032022CR001091). Motion to have the court order a competency evaluation. Submitted by DA Beth McCann. May 11, 2023.

People v. Niceta (Case: D0032022CR001091). Pretrial hearing. May 15, 2023.

CBS Colorado's followup story on May 15, 2023: https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news...


Image Credits:

Charles Whitman: Public Domain

UT Austin Observation Tower: © 1980 Larry D. Moore. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Downloaded from Wikimedia Commons, June 2023.