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Today · 40 min
Lindsay Clancy Trial: Autopsy Testimony Confirms Callan's Cause of Death as Pediatrician Defends Her
The medical examiner opened today's testimony 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's pleaded not guilty, with attorney Kevin Reddington arguing an insanity defense built on severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication. Dr. Kimberley Springer walked the courtroom through the autopsy of the youngest victim, Callan. Cause of death: complications from mechanical asphyxiation, strangulation by ligature. There's no softening that, and the prosecution didn't try to. What followed complicated the picture rather than simplifying it. Pediatrician Dr. Lindsay Rosshart testified she'd examined all three children and never saw signs of postpartum depression in Clancy. Under cross-examination, she went on record saying Clancy was a good mom. That's the kind of testimony that doesn't fit neatly into either side's narrative, and it's exactly why the defense wanted it in front of the jury. A preschool teacher from Learning Sprouts, Susan Fraone, rounded out the day with a smaller detail — drop-offs had been difficult for Dawson. It's a minor moment in a trial full of much larger ones, but the defense may lean on it as evidence something was off in the household before anyone recognized how badly. Prosecutors are still expected to argue Clancy understood what she was doing that day. 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 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 #DuxburyTragedy #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #PlymouthCounty #CoraDawsonCallan #InsanityDefense #KevinReddington #TrueCrimeToday #Breaking
Today · 15 min
What Nancy Guthrie's Kidnapper Did After Savannah Said She'd Pay
Savannah Guthrie went on camera and told the kidnapper the family understood his demands and would pay. Four days later, the second note arrived. It did not raise the price. It did not negotiate. It said Nancy was dead, apologized, and walked away from everything. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott breaks down the second note with Tony Brueski — what a public response from the family did to this man, whether the apology is genuine or performative, and what it tells you that he never says where she is. 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 #SavannahGuthrie #TrueCrimeToday #ShavaunScott #RansomNote #Kidnapping #PimaCounty #ForensicPsychology #TrueCrime #BehavioralAnalysis
Today · 21 min
What Kouri Richins’ Best Friend Never Saw Coming
She gave Kouri Richins forty-five thousand dollars. It was supposed to be a down payment on a home. A rent-to-own deal through Kouri’s real estate company. She moved her family in and started paying rent, believing she was building toward ownership. According to prosecutors, not a dollar of that money went where it was supposed to go. Kouri allegedly used it to cover her company’s debts. The lender foreclosed. The friend’s family lost the house. That friend isn’t the only person prosecutors say Kouri Richins used and discarded on her way to the murder of her husband Eric. There are twenty-six felony fraud charges pending against her in a separate Summit County case — mortgage fraud, money laundering, forgery, bad checks, communications fraud, and a charge alleging an ongoing criminal pattern. The murder conviction already put her away for life. These charges are about documenting exactly who she was to every person who crossed her path. Prosecutors allege she stole a quarter million from Eric’s home without his knowledge, forged his documents for loans, and ran a real estate operation that was millions in debt with no way out. They allege the prenuptial agreement contained a single clause that made Eric’s death the only scenario where she could access his business. And they allege Eric secretly created a trust to block her — a move she didn’t discover until it was too late. This episode traces the fraud from the first stolen dollar to the twenty-six charges and the restitution fight still ahead. 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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX 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: #KouriRichins #EricRichins #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #FraudCharges #MurderConviction #SummitCountyUtah #TrueCrimePodcast #JusticeForEric #LifeWithoutParole
Today · 1 hr
Lindsay Clancy AND Kohberger Are NOT Fighting the Same Fight
Same attorney. Two cases that look nothing alike once you get past the headlines.In Plymouth, the prosecution is arguing that Lindsay Clancy's best moments prove she was rational enough to plan what happened. Patrick Clancy — the prosecution's own witness — filed a civil lawsuit against her doctors. The defense has a hospital that identified overmedication and tried to intervene before it was too late.In Idaho, Bryan Kohberger is trying to undo a guilty plea he confirmed under oath using arguments traced to a true crime book. The evidence he says was withheld was tested by his own defense team. The family that fought the plea harder than anyone is welcoming a retrial.Bob Motta of Defense Diaries examines both cases with Tony Brueski — the emotional strategy in Plymouth, the legal reality in Idaho, and what connects them.Tony Brueski and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries. 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 #BryanKohberger #TrueCrimeToday #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #TrueCrime #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #IdahoMurders #PostpartumPsychosis #PleaWithdrawal
Yesterday · 20 min
Alex Murdaugh's Retrial Hinges on a Test Prosecutors Tried to Block
The fight over Alex Murdaugh's retrial is being shaped months before the first witness takes the stand — and at the center of it is a DNA sample recovered from Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails. SLED tested it years ago, identified it as belonging to an unknown male with no connection to the family, and according to defense filings never pursued it further. The defense wants the remaining reserve sample sent to Othram, a forensic genetic genealogy laboratory that has helped solve cases standard law enforcement DNA testing couldn't crack — including helping to identify Bryan Kohberger in the Idaho student murders. The state opposed the request. Prosecutors argued that trace DNA under fingernails can transfer through casual contact and that Maggie had her nails done the day she was killed. The defense counters that SLED's testing method already failed to produce an identification and that running the same method again risks destroying the last of the evidence before a more advanced lab can try. The defense's filing also accuses SLED of a pattern of mishandling biological evidence in this case — pointing to allegations that exculpatory test results on a key piece of evidence were suppressed by SLED's own forensic leadership and the evidence itself was destroyed. Judge Debra McCaslin has set the retrial for April 2027. The DNA question is expected to be addressed at the August 14th pretrial hearing. 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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX 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. #AlexMurdaugh #MaggieMurdaugh #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #MurdaughRetrial #SLED #Othram #SouthCarolina #ColdOpen #JusticeForMaggie
Yesterday · 20 min
Did Bryan Kohberger Build His Legal Case From a True Crime Book?
Bryan Kohberger's handwritten petition uses a phrase that is the title of a book published months before he filed. The evidence term he cites appears in no court record — only in that book. And the evidence he says was hidden from him was examined by an expert his own lawyers paid for.Bob Motta of Defense Diaries joins Tony Brueski to break down what this petition is built on, what the sworn record says about whether the plea was voluntary, and what the historical pattern tells you about defendants who tried to undo pleas they took to avoid execution.They also cover Steve Goncalves welcoming a retrial, the procedural reality of what happens if the plea is withdrawn, and why the question that matters most is not whether Kohberger can get this heard — it is whether any attorney would stand beside him at trial.Tony Brueski and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries. 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 #KohbergerPlea #TrueCrimeToday #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #IdahoMurders #UniversityOfIdaho #PostConvictionRelief #BrokenPlea #TrueCrime
Yesterday · 1 hr
Clancy Trial Bombshell: Blood in the Basement Was Cora's — DNA and Nanny Testimony Collide
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 resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023, moved from courtroom procedure to hard evidence in one sitting. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and is mounting an insanity defense through attorney Kevin Reddington, built on claims of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication. Plymouth Superior Court Judge William F. Sullivan read stipulations already agreed to by both prosecution and defense — meaning no one's contesting them. The exercise bands recovered from the scene carry DNA from Lindsay Clancy, Patrick Clancy, and the children on their ends. Blood recovered from the basement has been confirmed to belong to Cora. Stipulated facts, not theories. Former Massachusetts State Police criminalist Katarina Stashyn followed with a breakdown of how DNA testing works and what it actually revealed from the samples collected in this case — testimony meant to make sure jurors understand the science behind the stipulation, not just the conclusion. The day closed with something less clinical. Elaine Rossi, who worked as the Clancy family's nanny, testified about her time in the household, including conversations where Lindsay told her she was dealing with postpartum depression. It's the kind of detail the defense will lean on hard in the weeks ahead. Prosecutors maintain 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 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 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 #DuxburyTragedy #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #PlymouthCounty #CoraDawsonCallan #InsanityDefense #KevinReddington #TrueCrimeToday #Breaking
Yesterday · 20 min
What Nancy Guthrie's Kidnapper Proved He Knew About Her House
The first ransom note contained details about Nancy Guthrie's home that retired FBI negotiator Jason Pack says almost nobody knew — a smartwatch on the floor, a destroyed floodlight. The writer proved he had been inside the house. He never proved he had Nancy. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott goes through the first note with Tony Brueski — the demand structure, the proof-of-presence, the language that reads like a man closing a transaction, and the line about Nancy that changes meaning entirely when you read the second note. 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 #SavannahGuthrie #TrueCrimeToday #ShavaunScott #RansomNote #Kidnapping #PimaCounty #ForensicPsychology #TrueCrime #BehavioralAnalysis
Yesterday · 23 min
Why Clancy's Surgeon Called Her Injuries Superficial
A South Shore Hospital surgeon took the stand at Plymouth Superior Court and told the jury that Lindsay Clancy's wrist and neck injuries on the night she allegedly killed her three children were superficial. The cuts went through skin and exposed fat but didn't reach muscles, arteries, or tendons. The prosecution needed that testimony to support their argument that Clancy's attempt on her own life wasn't real. Then Clancy's defense attorney Kevin Reddington revealed something the surgeon never knew — her patient's heart had stopped at Brigham and Women's Hospital and she required massive blood transfusions to survive. The rest of Day 6 centered on prescription evidence. Thirteen bottles were presented to the jury, most nearly full. Prosecutors argued Clancy wasn't taking her medications. The defense showed all thirteen were prescribed in a three-week span. Forensic scientists confirmed five psychiatric drugs in Clancy's blood — mirtazapine, lamotrigine, quetiapine, trazodone, and benzodiazepines — and confirmed the absence of any recreational or illicit substances. Post-mortem results on Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, eight months, showed nothing in their systems. Clancy also spoke in court for the first time, agreeing to stipulations that concede all physical evidence and narrow the trial entirely to her mental state. 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 #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #PostpartumPsychosis #DuxburyMA #CriminalTrial #TrueCrimeToday #JusticeForCora
Yesterday · 59 min
Clancy Trial: Toxicologist Says Drug Levels Were Within Therapeutic Range
The murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the 34-year-old Duxbury, Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 7 months — with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023, continued this week with a run of clinical, detail-heavy testimony. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and is pursuing an insanity defense under attorney Kevin Reddington, who argues she was in the grip of severe postpartum psychosis compounded by psychiatric overmedication. Physician Assistant Eitan Negri opened the day describing the treatment of Clancy's wrist injuries. From there, jurors moved into the science. Nicholas Roberts, formerly of the Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab's toxicology division, testified to the drug levels detected in Clancy's blood and urine. Then forensic toxicologist Dr. Justin Brower took the numbers further, telling the court that the levels he tested for were within therapeutic range — not elevated, not consistent with the kind of overmedication the defense has leaned on to explain her state of mind. That's a problem for a defense strategy built partly on the idea that Clancy was chemically overwhelmed. Toxicology doesn't argue with a jury. It just sits there as a number, and today's number wasn't the one the defense probably wanted. After the killings, Clancy 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 is underway in Plymouth Superior Court and expected to run 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 #TrueCrimeToday #Breaking
Yesterday · 16 min
What Patrick Clancy Concluded About His Wife's Doctors
The prosecution put Patrick Clancy on the stand to prove Lindsay had intent. What came out on cross told a different story — a woman who sought help from providers who never warned her husband it was unsafe to leave her alone with the children.Patrick filed a civil lawsuit. So did Lindsay. Both suits name the healthcare providers who managed her medications. The father of three dead children looked at everything and decided the system failed his family.Bob Motta of Defense Diaries joins Tony Brueski to cover the cross-examination testimony the prosecution did not plan for, the documented fact that a hospital identified overmedication and tried to intervene before it was too late, and the question of whether the people in the courtroom are the right defendants.Tony Brueski and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries. 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 #PatrickClancy #TrueCrimeToday #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #CriminalResponsibility #TrueCrime #HealthcareAccountability
Yesterday · 18 min
Bryan Kohberger's Case Rests On A Woman He Blames
Bryan Kohberger is trying to withdraw his guilty plea and win a new trial — and he seems not to have priced what winning would cost him. He traded a trial for his life. The agreement he signed in the Idaho student murders took the death penalty off the table in exchange for four consecutive life sentences and a waiver of his right to appeal. Now he wants the agreement gone. If a judge vacated that plea, the deal dissolves — and legal experts told Newsweek that Kohberger would be facing capital punishment all over again. One former federal prosecutor called the attempt foolish, and said that if this case were actually tried, there is a very good chance he is convicted and sentenced to death. Idaho's attorney general said his office stands ready to do whatever is necessary. So the lawyer Kohberger is calling ineffective is the one who got the needle taken away, and saving his life is the failure he is alleging. Tony lays out how he got here. A witness list filed by prosecutors weeks before trial. A name on it that changed the math. A guilty plea entered days later, under oath, with the judge asking him point blank whether he actually committed these crimes because he didn't want the man confessing to something he hadn't done. And then, thirteen months later, five handwritten pages saying none of it was true. The petition is not frivolous and there is a real statute behind it. But there is a difference between a door being open and a man being able to walk through it. This episode is about exactly where that line falls, and what four families are being asked to sit through while it plays out. 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 (10) #IdahoStudentMurders #BryanKohberger #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #DeathPenalty #UniversityOfIdaho #KohbergerPlea #MoscowIdaho #KohbergerCase #IdahoFour
Tuesday · 43 min
No Damage to the Window: Duxbury Sergeant's Testimony in the Lindsay Clancy Trial
Two witnesses with very different vantage points took the stand this week in the Lindsay Clancy trial — one clinical, one procedural, both consequential. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation over the deaths of her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 7 months — who prosecutors allege she strangled with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She's pleaded not guilty, and her attorney, Kevin Reddington, is arguing an insanity defense centered on severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication. Sgt. Robert Flynn of the Duxbury Police Department testified he was present when State Police executed the search warrant at the home, and told the court there was no damage to the window or screen — a detail that's going to matter a great deal to anyone tracking the physical evidence around Clancy's alleged fall. Flynn confirmed State Police took over the investigation after that. Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Jhilam Biswas described her initial assessment of Clancy, focused on evaluating her safety and state of mind. Biswas told the court psychosis symptoms present differently from person to person, but said that during the roughly 20 minutes she communicated with Clancy, she observed no signs of active psychosis. Clancy is accused of attempting suicide after the killings, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial is underway in Plymouth Superior Court and is expected to run 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 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 #DuxburyTragedy #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #PlymouthCounty #CoraDawsonCallan #InsanityDefense #KevinReddington #TrueCrimeToday #Breaking
Tuesday · 1 hr 17 min
Lindsay Clancy Trial: Crime Lab Experts Detail What the Evidence Actually Shows
The Lindsay Clancy trial spent a day in the world of lab coats and evidence logs, and it was no less devastating for it. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, 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 attorney Kevin Reddington is arguing an insanity defense centered on severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication. Plymouth Superior Court Judge William F. Sullivan started afternoon proceedings by reading the stipulations prosecution and defense had already agreed on regarding the children's toxicology findings. Then the state called its scientists. Alicia Zimmermann of the Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab explained how toxicology testing is conducted when the deceased is a child — a process that demands its own protocols, not adult ones scaled down. Sherri Crook, who supervises the State Police Crime Scene Response unit, followed with a breakdown of blood spatter analysis, distinguishing spatter from pooling from smearing, and mapping those categories onto the physical evidence recovered at the Clancy home. This is the unglamorous backbone of a strangulation prosecution — chain-of-custody science, pattern interpretation, and testimony that doesn't editorialize because it doesn't have to. Prosecutors Jennifer Sprague and Shanan Buckingham are using it to build a factual floor under the state's case. The defense still has to get the jury from "this happened" to "she didn't know it was wrong." That gap is where this trial will actually be decided. Proceedings continue 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 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 #DuxburyTragedy #CrimeLab #TrueCrime #PlymouthCounty #CoraDawsonCallan #InsanityDefense #KevinReddington #ForensicScience #Breaking
Tuesday · 25 min
How Nolan Wells' Medical Examiner Helped A Deputy Walk
In 2021, a twenty-nine-year-old Black man named Damien Cameron was restrained by Rankin County sheriff's deputies and transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Mississippi's chief medical examiner, Dr. Staci Turner, performed the autopsy. Her own findings documented internal bleeding in his neck consistent with compression injuries. She ruled the death "undetermined."Three national forensic pathologists — including former NYC chief medical examiner Dr. Michael Baden and Rutgers forensic pathology chief Dr. Zhongxue Hua — independently reviewed the case at the request of the New York Times and Mississippi Today. All three concluded the death was a homicide. A grand jury relied on Turner's ruling and declined to indict the deputies. One of them — Hunter Elward — is now serving federal time for the "Goon Squad" torture cases.That same medical examiner performed Nolan Wells' autopsy on July 7. Those results remain sealed. The independent autopsy came back undetermined with significant limitations. And the family's attorney — Ben Crump — is the same attorney who represented Cameron's family and now represents Trey Reed's family in another disputed Turner ruling.Even a perfect autopsy from this office, in this framework, won't be believed. That's not the family's fault. That's what happens when institutions lose credibility and nobody in power fixes 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. #NolanWells #StaciTurner #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Mississippi #MedicalExaminer #DamienCameron #JusticeForNolan #GoonSquad #TrueCrimeCommunity
Tuesday · 51 min
Lindsay Clancy Case: What the Toxicology Screen Found in Her Blood and Urine
Three witnesses, one clear throughline: what was documented at the scene, and what was actually in Lindsay Clancy's system. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is on trial for 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 attorney Kevin Reddington is arguing insanity, built on severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication. Trooper Johnathon O'Loughlin testified first, detailing the photographs, drawings, and notes he took cataloguing items of interest — the groundwork for everything that followed. Then the lab took over. Hillary Griffiths of the Crime Lab's toxicology unit testified to which drugs were actually present in Clancy's blood at the time. Lisa Yelle, who worked toxicology at the lab when this happened, described the "general unknown screens" run on both blood and urine — panels that check for hundreds of substances and come back simply detected or not-detected. It's about as unemotional as testimony gets, and that's exactly why it carries weight. For a defense built on overmedication, this is the testimony that either backs the theory up or forces a harder conversation. Prosecutors Jennifer Sprague and Shanan Buckingham are letting the lab work do the talking. After the killings, Clancy allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window and is now paralyzed from the waist down. The trial continues before Judge William F. Sullivan 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: 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 #DuxburyTragedy #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #PlymouthCounty #CoraDawsonCallan #InsanityDefense #Toxicology #KevinReddington #TrueCrimeToday
Tuesday · 58 min
Nancy Guthrie, Kohberger, Wells — THIS Is What They Share
Nancy Guthrie, Bryan Kohberger, Nolan Wells — three cases where the system failed and the families are doing the work. Retired FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer examines all three in a single conversation: the Pima County sheriff's inability to accurately describe his own case's only conviction, Kohberger's petition to undo four sworn confessions using language borrowed from a book, and the Mississippi medical examiner whose track record on police-involved deaths should concern anyone waiting for Nolan Wells' autopsy results. The connective tissue is institutional failure. The question is who answers for it. 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 #NolanWells #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #JenniferCoffindaffer #SavannahGuthrie #IdahoMurders #Mississippi #GoonSquad
Tuesday · 43 min
Lindsay Clancy Case: Crime Lab's Hartnett Testifies to Collecting Clancy's Own Blood
Forensic testimony took center stage this week 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 resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation. She's pleaded not guilty, with attorney Kevin Reddington building an insanity defense around severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication. Maureen Hartnett, a technician with the Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab, told the court about the evidence she collected both at the Summer Street home and directly from Lindsay Clancy — including blood evidence drawn from the defendant. This is the kind of testimony that rarely trends, but it's the scaffolding underneath everything the toxicologists and experts will say later. Every claim about what was or wasn't in Clancy's system traces back to a moment like this one — someone in gloves, logging a sample, starting a chain of custody nobody can afford to break. Prosecutors Jennifer Sprague and Shanan Buckingham are methodically assembling that chain. After the killings, Clancy allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window and remains paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan, where he's spoken publicly about her mental health. The trial continues before Judge William F. Sullivan in Plymouth Superior Court and is expected to run several more 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: 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 #DuxburyTragedy #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #PlymouthCounty #CoraDawsonCallan #InsanityDefense #KevinReddington #ForensicEvidence #TrueCrimeToday
Tuesday · 24 min
Why Lindsay Clancy's 'Best Day' Is Now Evidence Against Her
The prosecution told the jury something in its first week that reframes the entire case. Lindsay Clancy was having one of her best days. She built a snowman with her children. She texted normally. And the state says that is the evidence — not of recovery, but of rational capacity.Bob Motta of Defense Diaries joins Tony Brueski to work through the prosecution's argument at Plymouth Superior Court. They cover the seven-minute 911 call that shook the courtroom, the fourteen-second phone call where Lindsay sounded normal after, and the prosecution's claim that visiting multiple providers was not desperation but doctor shopping. ADA Buckingham opened by telling the jury that people with mental illness are held responsible for crimes every day.Motta breaks down whether that argument survives once the defense puts a psychiatrist on the stand — or whether the prosecution has already made the medical testimony irrelevant.Tony Brueski and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries. 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 #TrueCrimeToday #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #CriminalResponsibility #TrueCrime #Massachusetts
Tuesday · 23 min
Lindsay Clancy Almost Died That Same Night
While prosecutors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial argue she faked her injuries, a Duxbury police officer confirmed on the stand that a Code Blue was called for her hospital room at Brigham and Women's. The officer spent sixteen hours watching Clancy lie sedated and motionless. She never said a word. Day 4 of testimony at Plymouth Superior Court started with the jury touring the Duxbury house at 47 Summer Street. They went through in groups of six — the basement where Patrick Clancy found the children, the upstairs bedroom where blood was found on the floor, the bed, the walls, and the windowsill, and the second-story window prosecutors say Lindsay jumped from. The judge overruled the current homeowner's objection to the visit. A detective testified about meeting Clancy at South Shore Hospital, where she was unconscious with lacerations across her neck and wrists. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington showed photographs of blood throughout the bedroom and a knife on the nightstand. Then ER physicians described treating Dawson Clancy, three years old, for forty minutes before declaring him dead — and getting eight-month-old Callan's heart beating again only to find no brain activity. Callan died at Boston Children's Hospital. Clancy is charged with three counts of first-degree murder. Her defense argues postpartum psychosis made her unable to appreciate the wrongfulness of her actions. The trial continues Monday. 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. #LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #CodeBlue #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #DuxburyMA #MurderTrial #JuryTrial