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Today · 41 min
Why Murdaugh Prosecutors Won't Test This DNA
There's DNA sitting in a South Carolina evidence locker that could identify whose skin was under Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails the night she and her son Paul were shot to death, and prosecutors trying to convict Alex Murdaugh a second time don't want an independent lab anywhere near it. SLED tested the sample once, said it didn't match the family, and stopped. The defense wants a second opinion from the genealogy lab that helped crack the Bryan Kohberger case in Idaho. The state wants first crack at it themselves, using the same process that already failed, in a procedure the defense argues could use up what's left before anyone independent ever sees it. Ask yourself why. If that DNA is really meaningless, a confirmed result helps the prosecution as much as anyone else. The only reason to block a test is if you're not sure what it says. The defense has also laid out a pattern they say runs through this whole case: a white T-shirt that tested negative for blood, a blood spatter expert who allegedly reversed his findings after a visit from the lead investigator, and a SLED captain accused of directing subordinates to bury exculpatory results. Meanwhile, a federal judge threw out Murdaugh's lawsuit against former clerk of court Becky Hill on August 5th, the case his own attorney admitted was built for one purpose: putting her under oath and pulling her records before the retrial. Gone with it is any chance of tracing the anonymous email that got a juror removed from deliberations. Two doors just closed, five months before Alex Murdaugh goes back to trial for murder. Judge Debra McCaslin, who's overseeing the retrial, has already asked prosecutors point blank how long independent testing would take, a question that doesn't leave much room to keep stalling. Links & Legal Footer Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags #AlexMurdaugh #MaggieMurdaugh #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #MurdaughRetrial #SLED #BeckyHill #JuryTampering #SouthCarolina #ColdCaseDNA
Today · 41 min
What Lindsay Clancy Did In Her Final Twenty-Five Minutes
Two families, two very different relationships with the help that was available to them — and this week both stories collided. Lindsay Clancy's murder trial in Plymouth Superior Court just wrapped three days of heavy testimony: Patrick Clancy on the stand for two of them, his 911 call played for a visibly shaken jury, and first responders walking the courtroom through the scene itself. Then prosecutors produced nine prescription bottles. Most still had pills in them. That single detail cuts against the defense's central argument — that Lindsay was overwhelmed by medications her providers kept adjusting. Her lawsuit says a postpartum program discharged her after one day in December of 2022, after providers noted her symptoms might be medication-related and told her to taper off an antipsychotic. She was a labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General. She knew exactly where to go for help — and got a single day of it. Compare that to Nick Reiner, who told reporters in 2015 he'd been through somewhere between seventeen and eighteen rehab stays since around age fifteen, all arranged and paid for by his family, including a yearlong conservatorship. He's now charged with two counts of murder in the deaths of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner and has pleaded not guilty. Tony Brueski connects what jurors just heard about those pill bottles and that twenty-five-minute errand prosecutors won't stop mentioning, to the bigger question underneath both cases: whether endless access to treatment and almost none of it produce the same outcome, and what that says about the systems built to catch people before this happens. Reiner has pleaded not guilty and no motive has been officially confirmed. Clancy's jury has not returned a verdict, and prosecutors argue she acted intentionally and should be held criminally responsible. Hashtags #LindsayClancy #NickReiner #HiddenKillers #PatrickClancy #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #InsanityDefense #RobReiner Links & Legal Footer Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.
Today · 35 min
What Kohberger Claims Happened In His Attorney Meetings
Four sworn admissions of deliberate murder. A judge who asked, point blank, whether Bryan Kohberger was pleading guilty because he was guilty — and whether anyone had forced him into it. He said yes to the first question and no to the second, on the record, with his own attorneys standing beside him. Thirteen months later, he's telling a different story. Kohberger's handwritten petition to withdraw his guilty plea in the University of Idaho student murders rests on a specific claim: "clumps of hair" recovered from a victim's hand that he says prove someone else did this. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer examined that claim against the actual unsealed record and found the phrase doesn't exist in any forensic report or court filing. It's from a book. The real testing, done by Kohberger's own defense expert, found the hair morphologically consistent with the victim's own. There's also a detail in the petition about who was present during Kohberger's meetings with his own defense attorneys — a claim that, if it goes anywhere, could complicate his case far more than it helps it. Coffindaffer and Tony Brueski go through what prosecutors had lined up before the plea — an amended witness list naming a hundred and eighty people — and why the math facing Kohberger now is brutal: a clean plea colloquy, a defense expert's own findings, and a legal standard that almost never favors petitions like this one. They also break down what was actually recovered from the crime scene, what was tested and what wasn't, and how two separate pieces of hair evidence ended up being reported online as if they were one single, damning detail. Hashtags #BryanKohberger #IdahoStudentMurders #HiddenKillers #JenniferCoffindaffer #EthanChapin #GuiltyPlea #UniversityOfIdaho #MoscowIdaho #KohbergerCase #TrueCrime Links & Legal Footer Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.
Yesterday · 48 min
Why Nolan Wells' Snapchat Was Completely Empty
Nolan Wells documented everything. Eighteen years old, active on Snapchat, the kind of kid whose phone tells a story. So when his mother, Christine Wells-Wonsley, got that phone back after his death, both of his Snapchat accounts being completely empty wasn't nothing — it was a red flag she couldn't ignore. Nolan went to a July 4 boat party on Horn Island, Mississippi. He was the only one who didn't come home. His body was found two days later in the water, and the sheriff ruled out foul play before the autopsy, toxicology, or the FBI's phone examination were complete. Christine didn't even know he was missing until almost midnight — hours after the boat docked and his friends left with his phone and keys. The official state autopsy is still sealed. The DA says a grand jury will eventually review it, with no date attached. The family's independent autopsy came back "undetermined," in part because parts of Nolan's throat were missing by the time their own pathologist examined the body. On the day they buried him, the family's attorneys sent ten-page preservation-of-evidence letters to everyone connected to the case — the friends, their families, the sheriff's office, the DA, the coroner, the state medical examiner. Nine days later, Christine filed court-ordered subpoenas against five tech companies, demanding GPS data, login histories, direct messages, and password reset records, with a twenty-one-day response window. A contradiction has also emerged between Nolan's friends' account and the account of the girl he allegedly stayed behind to talk to. Attorney Ben Crump is involved. Christine isn't waiting for Mississippi to move — she's building her own case, thread by thread. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS #NolanWells #ChristineWonsley #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #HornIsland #Mississippi #JusticeForNolan #BenCrump #GrandJury #TrueCrimeCommunity
Yesterday · 40 min
What Patrick Clancy Did After Losing His Children
Patrick Clancy sat in the witness box for the prosecution in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial — and by the time cross-examination finished, jurors had heard a very different story than the one that put him there. Plymouth Superior Court opened its first full week with a seven-minute 911 call, pajamas and exercise bands entered as physical evidence, and a fourteen-second phone call Patrick received after his children were already gone, with no idea what had happened on the other end of the line. The state leans hard on one detail: Patrick testified that the day before, Lindsay built a snowman with the kids and texted like everything was normal. Prosecutors call that proof she was lucid enough to plan. ADA Buckingham told jurors flatly that people with mental illness commit crimes every day and are still held responsible for them. Then the defense got its turn. Records showed Lindsay checked into McLean Hospital on New Year's Eve. She went to the emergency room. She told providers, repeatedly, about intrusive thoughts involving her own children. Women and Infants Hospital had already flagged overmedication and a possible misdiagnosis — a flag nobody ever answered. What the jury may not expect: both Patrick and Lindsay have filed separate civil lawsuits against the healthcare providers who treated her. The man testifying for the prosecution is, outside the courtroom, blaming the same system the state is asking jurors to look past. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries joins Tony Brueski to unpack what actually hurt the prosecution on cross-examination, what Massachusetts asks a jury with no medical background to decide, and what it means that the children's own father says the doctors failed first. They also break down whether the civil suits undercut the state's timeline, or whether a jury can hold both stories in its head at once. Hashtags #LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillers #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #CriminalResponsibility Links & Legal Footer Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.
Yesterday · 44 min
What Nancy Guthrie's Kidnapper Sent Instead of Her Voice
Nancy Guthrie's kidnapper wrote two ransom notes, and Pima County released both of them in full. The first demanded four million dollars in bitcoin from Savannah Guthrie on a deadline — and included proof-of-presence details that read less like comfort and more like a threat. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott breaks down the language line by line: the structure of a man closing out a task, a single slip from "we" to "me," and a sentence about Nancy's mother built to put the weight of what happens next entirely on the family. The second note claims Nancy died not long after she was taken. If the notes are telling the truth in order, the ransom demand went out for someone who was already gone. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer picks up where the note leaves off. Sheriff Chris Nanos told cameras that the case's only person charged, Derrick Callella, received a ten-year sentence. He hasn't been sentenced. The actual plea deal is five years of probation on two counts of harassment by telecommunications device. Coffindaffer explains why a sheriff misstating his own case's only conviction matters — and why, with a million-dollar reward on the table, the FBI director and Pima County's sheriff still haven't spoken to each other directly. Savannah Guthrie posted a new video plea using language that suggests she knows something the public doesn't. And thirty miles from the house Nancy vanished from, a woman was attacked by an intruder who walked through an unlocked door before dawn — described at roughly the same height as the figure caught on Nancy's porch camera. Two experts, one case, and a note that promises nothing it can actually prove. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS #NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillers #ShavaunScott #JenniferCoffindaffer #RansomNote #PimaCounty #SheriffNanos #TrueCrime #Kidnapping
Yesterday · 44 min
Why Nolan Wells' Medical Examiner Still Has Her Job
Nolan Wells' autopsy results are sealed, and the woman who performed it has done this before. Dr. Staci Turner, Mississippi's chief medical examiner, ruled a 2021 in-custody death "undetermined" even though her own report documented neck injuries consistent with compression. Three independent forensic pathologists — including Dr. Michael Baden, former chief medical examiner of New York City — reviewed the same evidence and called it a homicide outright. A grand jury used Turner's ruling to decline charges against the deputies who restrained Damien Cameron. One of them, Hunter Elward, is now serving time in federal prison for the Rankin County "Goon Squad" torture cases — just not for Cameron's death. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer walks through what that history means now that Turner holds the results of Nolan Wells' autopsy. The district attorney controls when, or whether, those results get unsealed, and there's no deadline forcing the issue. Coffindaffer also examines what it says that Nolan's mother, Christine Wells-Wonsley, filed subpoenas the same day she buried her son. That's not the move of a family that trusts the process. Attorney Ben Crump represented Damien Cameron's family. He represents Nolan Wells' family now. Same state, same examiner, same attorney circling back to a system that already failed one family in a documented way. Nolan died near Horn Island, and in the time since, the pace of this investigation has tested whatever trust his family had left. None of this proves what happened to Nolan Wells. It proves the office responsible for telling us has a credibility problem it never fixed — and this family already knows it. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS #NolanWells #StaciTurner #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Mississippi #DamienCameron #GoonSquad #JenniferCoffindaffer #JusticeForNolan #MedicalExaminer
Yesterday · 16 min
What Gets Read Aloud At Tupac's Murder Trial
A murder trial without a weapon, without DNA, and without the person who allegedly pulled the trigger sounds impossible. In Las Vegas, it's happening. Duane "Keffe D" Davis faces one count of murder with a deadly weapon and a gang enhancement in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur. He's 63, has pleaded not guilty, and has been jailed since September 2023. Prosecutors aren't arguing he fired the shots. Their theory is that he was the shot caller, the person who gave the order and provided the gun, riding in the front passenger seat of the white Cadillac that pulled alongside Tupac at a red light near the Strip. The alleged shooter, Davis's nephew Orlando Anderson, denied involvement and died in Compton in 1998. Judge Carli Kierny has ruled what the state does have admissible. After his arrest Davis reversed course entirely, telling ABC News he's innocent and made it all up for money. Every defense motion has failed, including the immunity claim built on a 2008 proffer agreement with an LAPD task force. Las Vegas police had those 2008 statements by 2009 and made no arrest for fourteen years. Tupac's family has waited three decades for a courtroom. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #TupacShakur #KeffeD #HiddenKillers #DuaneDavis #MurderTrial #2Pac #LasVegas #TrueCrime #DeathRowRecords #OrlandoAnderson
Yesterday · 16 min
What Gets Read Aloud At Tupac's Murder Trial
A murder trial without a weapon, without DNA, and without the person who allegedly pulled the trigger sounds impossible. In Las Vegas, it's happening. Duane "Keffe D" Davis faces one count of murder with a deadly weapon and a gang enhancement in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur. He's 63, has pleaded not guilty, and has been jailed since September 2023. Prosecutors aren't arguing he fired the shots. Their theory is that he was the shot caller, the person who gave the order and provided the gun, riding in the front passenger seat of the white Cadillac that pulled alongside Tupac at a red light near the Strip. The alleged shooter, Davis's nephew Orlando Anderson, denied involvement and died in Compton in 1998. Judge Carli Kierny has ruled what the state does have admissible. After his arrest Davis reversed course entirely, telling ABC News he's innocent and made it all up for money. Every defense motion has failed, including the immunity claim built on a 2008 proffer agreement with an LAPD task force. Las Vegas police had those 2008 statements by 2009 and made no arrest for fourteen years. Tupac's family has waited three decades for a courtroom. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #TupacShakur #KeffeD #HiddenKillers #DuaneDavis #MurderTrial #2Pac #LasVegas #TrueCrime #DeathRowRecords #OrlandoAnderson
Yesterday · 48 min
Is Kohberger, Clancy, or Keffe D In The MOST Trouble?!
Eric Faddis is a defense attorney and a former prosecutor. In this session, he covers three active criminal cases that share a common thread: in each one, the defendant's own words are the most consequential evidence in the proceeding. Kohberger told a judge he was guilty. He signed a questionnaire. He endorsed his plea under oath. Now he says his lawyers made him lie — and his petition to withdraw the plea could put the death penalty back on the table. Clancy's journal entries were read aloud in a Massachusetts courtroom. "I feel like I'm drowning every day." The prosecution says that proves lucidity. The defense says it proves freefall. Meanwhile, the state's own psychiatrist admitted psychosis can look like cooperation. Keffe D spent fifteen years telling police, television producers, and book readers that he was in the car when Tupac was shot. He published a memoir. He gave a proffer. Now he says it was all fiction — and a Las Vegas jury is about to decide. Faddis assesses each case from both sides of the courtroom — prosecution vulnerabilities, defense strategies, and who's actually in control. END_LINKS Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod DISCLAIMER This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS #BryanKohberger #LindsayClancy #KeffeD #TupacShakur #HiddenKillers #IdahoMurders #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #LindsayClancyTrial #TupacMurderTrial
Friday · 1 hr 11 min
Lindsay Clancy's Psychiatrist Testifies: Zoloft, Warning Signs, and a Screening That Missed It
A screening form is only as good as what the patient is willing to write down — and today's testimony in the Lindsay Clancy trial made that painfully clear. Dr. Jennifer Tufts, the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother's psychiatrist, described a patient who checked every box for "not a threat" right up until she wasn't. Clancy is charged with strangling her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 7 months — with exercise bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She's pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, with attorney Kevin Reddington arguing insanity via postpartum psychosis and overmedication. Tufts testified Clancy denied being suicidal, homicidal, or manic on her intake and risk forms, and showed no signs of psychosis or auditory hallucinations. But Clancy also told Tufts she was concerned about her own alcohol use — up to five days a week — alongside a long list of other mental health issues, and impulsive behavior was never assessed. Tufts started her on Zoloft, a breastfeeding-safe first option, and recommended therapy, though Clancy was reluctant to medicate. Raising the dose from 25 to 50 milligrams brought side effects, including intrusive thoughts that she might die — not active suicidal thoughts, Tufts clarified, but ideation nonetheless. Tufts said Clancy didn't fit Major Depressive Disorder, even as her depression visibly worsened in the days before January 23. Still, nothing in front of Tufts read as an active threat. Prosecutors maintain Clancy knew what she was doing. She allegedly tried to take her own life afterward by jumping from a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband Patrick was running errands at the time and has since moved to Manhattan. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court. Links Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Disclaimer Content on this site is based on publicly available information and reflects commentary and opinion. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Nothing published here constitutes legal, medical, or professional advice. Hashtags #LindsayClancy #DuxburyTragedy #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #PlymouthCounty #CoraDawsonCallan #InsanityDefense #KevinReddington #TrueCrimeToday #DrJenniferTufts
Friday · 20 min
Alex Murdaugh's Lawyers Planned To Do WHAT to Becky Hill?
When Alex Murdaugh's lawyers sued Becky Hill in federal court, the $600,000 damages claim was the paperwork. The plan underneath it was bigger. Jim Griffin described it at the press conference: subpoena power, depositions, and an investigation into exactly what she did, including the question the state never answered, whether she acted alone. A civil lawsuit was the one mechanism that could reach Hill's personal accounts and force her testimony. She isn't a party to the murder case, her plea deal ended her criminal case without cross-examination, and the Supreme Court ruled from juror transcripts without ever questioning her. The list of people who have examined Becky Hill under oath about the jury she managed stands at zero, and the lawsuit existed to change that before the April 2027 retrial. Judge Gergel dismissed it on August 5, 2026. His logic: the murder charges created Murdaugh's legal bills, and Hill didn't create the murder charges. This episode covers the four assets the defense lost in those five pages, from the government misconduct argument her records could have supported to the cross-examination material the investigator depositions could have handed them for use against SLED at the retrial, and the footnote that leaves a path back after the trial ends. Hosted by Tony Brueski Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #AlexMurdaugh #BeckyHill #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #MurdaughRetrial #MurdaughLawsuit #JuryTampering #SouthCarolina #TrueCrimePodcast #MurdaughMurders
Friday · 56 min
Lindsay Clancy Trial: Her Psychiatrist Testifies — The Forms Said No Risk At All
Dr. Jennifer Tufts, the psychiatrist who treated Lindsay Clancy in the months before the killings, took the stand today in the Duxbury, Massachusetts murder trial — and her testimony reads like a paper trail that missed everything. Clancy is accused of strangling her three children, 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan, with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and her attorney Kevin Reddington is mounting an insanity defense built on severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication. Tufts testified that Clancy filled out suicide risk and mental health screening forms, and on paper, she checked out — not suicidal, not homicidal, not manic. No signs of psychosis. No auditory hallucinations. What the forms didn't capture: Clancy told Tufts she was worried about her own drinking, up to five days a week, on top of a long list of other mental health concerns — and impulsive behavior was never flagged. Tufts prescribed Zoloft, a first-line option considered safe for breastfeeding, and referred Clancy to therapy. Clancy was hesitant about medication. When the dose went from 25 to 50 milligrams, she had side effects — including intrusive thoughts that she might die, though Tufts said there was no active suicidal ideation attached to it. Tufts testified Clancy's depression worsened as January 23 approached. She still didn't consider her a threat. Prosecutors argue Clancy understood what she was doing regardless of her mental state. After the killings, she allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window and is now paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court. Links Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Disclaimer Content on this site is based on publicly available information and reflects commentary and opinion. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Nothing published here constitutes legal, medical, or professional advice. Hashtags #LindsayClancy #DuxburyTragedy #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #PlymouthCounty #CoraDawsonCallan #InsanityDefense #KevinReddington #HiddenKillers #DrJenniferTufts
Friday · 12 min
What Keffe D Told Police About Tupac FOURTEEN Years Ago
Duane "Keffe D" Davis told police he was in the white Cadillac when Tupac Shakur was shot in Las Vegas in 1996. He told BET the same story in a documentary. He published the same account in his 2019 memoir "Compton Street Legend" — describing how he allegedly provided the weapon and ordered the hit on Tupac after his nephew was beaten by Tupac's crew at the MGM Grand. Fifteen years of consistent self-placement at the scene of one of the most famous unsolved murders in American history. Then he got arrested. Now Davis says he fabricated everything to make money. His murder trial is set to begin in Las Vegas. He faces life without parole if convicted. The case is built on a foundation almost entirely composed of the defendant's own statements — a 2008 police proffer, documentary appearances, media interviews, and a published book. The alleged shooter, Orlando Anderson, has been dead since 1998. The murder weapon has never been found. The judge ruled the 2008 proffer is admissible at trial despite the defense's argument that Davis was promised immunity. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down the prosecution's strategy, the immunity dispute, and whether Keffe D's own words are enough to convict him thirty years later. END_LINKS Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod DISCLAIMER This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS #TupacShakur #KeffeD #HiddenKillers #TupacMurderTrial #DuaneDavis #LasVegas #ComptonStreetLegend #EricFaddis #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast
Friday · 22 min
Eleven Witnesses Against Lindsay Clancy Kept Saying THIS
The Commonwealth spent Day 8 of the Lindsay Clancy trial calling the people who knew her best, and their testimony is the reason this episode matters. Hidden Killers takes you inside Plymouth Superior Court for the full day of August 6, witness by witness. Her coworker of seven years described a lunch where Lindsay admitted insomnia, brain fog, and a difficult mental place, then read a text from the day before the killings about finding the right medication. A therapist friend recalled Lindsay saying she felt like a zombie at her own daughter's birthday party. A lifelong friend shared a message about dark thoughts on medications she was tapering. A preschool teacher remembered 5-year-old Cora saying she missed her mom during Lindsay's stay at McLean Hospital. And Patrick Clancy's father, the children's grandfather, told the jury she was a great mother in an all-American family. Every one of those witnesses came from the prosecution's list. So did the medical examiner who performed Callan's autopsy, the pediatrician who saw Cora the morning of the killings, and the case detective who agreed on cross-examination that a search for abuse evidence came up empty. Prosecutors allege a functioning woman who made choices. The defense argues a mind that had broken in ways the people around her could not see. This episode walks through both readings of the same testimony, the single Facebook post prosecutors pulled from her account, and the fight over three defense doctors that started the moment the jury left the room. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrimeCommunity #Duxbury #Massachusetts #CrimeNews #JusticeSystem
Friday · 1 hr 1 min
Lindsay Clancy Trial: McLean Psychiatrist Admits She Never Tested Clancy for Depression
Dr. Alia Goodheart, a psychiatrist at McLean Hospital, took the stand today in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation. She has pleaded not guilty and is mounting an insanity defense, with attorney Kevin Reddington arguing she was in the grip of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication at the time of the killings. Under defense cross-examination, Goodheart testified that Clancy's discharge plan amounted to a website and an insurance card — she told Clancy to check Psychology Today and her own coverage to find follow-up care. Goodheart also admitted she never reviewed prior records from the nurse practitioners and other providers who'd already treated Clancy, and she confirmed Clancy told her she was having intrusive thoughts of suicide. No blood work. No screening tools. Not even the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale — the standard test built for exactly this situation. On redirect, prosecutors tried to soften the blow, stressing that discharge instructions did tell Clancy to contact a personal provider. Whether that line survives what came before it is now the jury's problem. Prosecutors are expected to argue Clancy understood the nature of her actions despite the defense's mental-health claims. After the killings, Clancy allegedly attempted to take her own life by jumping from a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out of the home running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial, underway in Plymouth Superior Court, is expected to last several weeks. Links Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Disclaimer Content on this site is based on publicly available information and reflects commentary and opinion. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Nothing published here constitutes legal, medical, or professional advice. Hashtags #LindsayClancy #DuxburyTragedy #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #PlymouthCounty #CoraDawsonCallan #InsanityDefense #KevinReddington #HiddenKillers #McLeanHospital
Friday · 1 hr 21 min
Lindsay Clancy's Discharge Papers Said She Wasn't a Threat — Then What Happened?
Lindsay Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is on trial for the deaths of her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 7 months — allegedly strangled with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She's pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, and her attorney, Kevin Reddington, is mounting an insanity defense built on postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication. Three witnesses this week gave the jury three very different windows into who Lindsay Clancy was before that day. Kimberlee Hardy, former Child Service Director at the Kingsbury Club, described a mother who was shy, reticent, and reluctant to even bring baby Callan around — she said she was worried about him catching a cold. On cross, Hardy conceded Clancy always seemed happy with her kids. Sarah Carney, closer to Patrick Clancy than to Lindsay, testified Lindsay had been exercising heavily and had grown noticeably thinner through the fall and winter of 2022 — but otherwise just "quiet." Then came the witness that actually matters: Dr. Alia Goodheart, a psychiatrist at McLean Hospital. She walked the jury through how patients land at McLean — through the ER, either involuntarily under Section 12 or voluntarily under Section 10. Clancy came in voluntarily in January, unable to sleep without medication and struggling with side effects. Goodheart's own records showed suicidal ideation with no plan, no notations of psychosis, and a "minimal risk" rating. Clancy described feeling emotionally numb and rejected a possible bipolar diagnosis. Goodheart considered postpartum depression, diagnosed insomnia tied to a mental health condition — and cleared her as no threat to herself or anyone else. That last part is the one the defense wants this jury to sit with. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #McLeanHospital #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #KevinReddington #TrueCrime #Duxbury #MassachusettsTrial
Friday · 16 min
What Bryan Kohberger's Petition Could Actually Cost Him
Bryan Kohberger took four consecutive life sentences in July 2025 specifically to keep the death penalty off the table. Thirteen months later, he filed a handwritten petition trying to undo his guilty plea — and the death penalty came right back into the conversation. His petition for post-conviction relief alleges his lawyers coerced him, hid exculpatory evidence, and told him actual guilt didn't matter. He claims he was advised to lie in court. He says his defense team fabricated a story about death row to scare his family into supporting the deal. Idaho's legal standard for withdrawing a guilty plea after sentencing is manifest injustice — an extraordinarily high bar. Kohberger signed a nine-page questionnaire confirming his plea was voluntary. He told the judge under oath he was guilty. He answered yes to every safeguard question designed to prevent exactly what he's trying to do. A new attorney, Gregory Rauch, has been appointed to represent him. The attorney general says Idaho stands ready. The families of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin say they welcome a trial. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis assesses the petition's legal viability, what the prosecution's response will look like, and whether Kohberger understands the gamble he just made. END_LINKS Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod DISCLAIMER This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS #BryanKohberger #IdahoMurders #HiddenKillers #GuiltyPlea #KayleeGoncalves #UniversityOfIdaho #EricFaddis #PostConvictionRelief #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast
Friday · 20 min
What The Prosecution's OWN Expert Said About Clancy
The Lindsay Clancy murder trial is into its first full week of testimony at Plymouth Superior Court, and the prosecution's case is already raising a question it may not want the jury asking: whose theory does the evidence support? Thirteen psychiatric medications. A hospital admission three weeks before the incident. A journal documenting a woman begging for help. A toxicology report showing every drug within its therapeutic window — as if the combination of thirteen separate mind-altering substances doesn't matter if each one passes on its own. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington conceded the government's case-in-chief. She killed her children. The blood matches. The physical evidence is not in dispute. That tactical move saved the prosecution from calling dozens of witnesses — but it also reframed the entire trial around the only question that matters: was Lindsay Clancy criminally responsible? The prosecution's own psychiatrist admitted under cross-examination that psychosis can present as calm cooperation. The state's expert just undercut the state's argument. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis examines the prosecution's strategy, the defense's gamble, and what the jury is actually hearing after week one of testimony. END_LINKS Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod DISCLAIMER This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS #LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #EricFaddis #CriminalResponsibility #MassachusettsTrial #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast
Friday · 59 min
Nancy Guthrie AND Kohberger: What Their Own Words Give Away
Nancy Guthrie's kidnapper proved he had been inside her house. He never proved he had her. He demanded millions. Then he apologized and walked away from all of it. Bryan Kohberger called his own confession fiction, invited the death penalty back, and thanked his online supporters. He never said the names of the four people he killed. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott reads both sets of words with Tony Brueski — the language, the structure, the absences, and what neither writer wanted you to see. Tony Brueski and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of The Minds of Mass Killers. END LINKS Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod DISCLAIMER This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS #NancyGuthrie #BryanKohberger #HiddenKillers #ShavaunScott #TrueCrime #ForensicPsychology #CriminalPsychology #RansomNote #IdahoMurders #PleaWithdrawal