The defense in the Matthew Farwell case is building its strategy around Sandra Birchmore’s mental health records, her journals, and her history of instability. They want the jury to see a woman who killed herself. Read more…
Lindsay Clancy’s trial lasted six weeks in Plymouth Superior Court. The jury deadlocked eleven to one. Judge Sullivan declared a mistrial September 4. While the jury was still deliberating, the internet had already moved on Read more…
Rob and Michele Reiner spent years trying to save a son who sources say bragged about what he could get away with. They paid for treatment at a facility that reportedly charged seventy thousand dollars Read more…
The Clancy mistrial declared September 4 left the legal question open. But the question that actually landed hardest has nothing to do with a retrial. Postpartum psychosis affects roughly one to two in every thousand Read more…
Five days before the murder, Wendi Adelson’s boyfriend says she told him her brother had looked into hiring a hitman. The day before, she asked him about his Friday driving route near Dan Markel’s house, Read more…
Lindsay Clancy admitted through her defense that she killed her three children — Cora, Dawson, and Callan — in their Duxbury home in January 2023. The trial was solely about whether she was criminally responsible. Read more…
The Lindsay Clancy jury was deadlocked eleven to one. Six weeks of testimony about postpartum psychosis and thirteen medications ended without a verdict on September 4. The jury couldn’t decide. The internet had no trouble Read more…
Every time a detective got close to solving the murder of Christopher Wallace, the LAPD pulled the plug. The first investigator followed the evidence to two of the department’s own officers. His chief ordered him Read more…
The trial ended. The case multiplied. Lindsay Clancy’s jury split eleven to one. The mistrial was declared. And instead of a resolution, the legal fight broke into three separate tracks — a potential retrial, two Read more…
What happens if the judge won’t end Lindsay Clancy’s case? Kevin Reddington had an answer ready before a retrial was even announced. After the mistrial, he asked for a fast hearing—and, if he lost that Read more…
In the final hours before Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, defense attorney Kevin Reddington asked the judge for a one-hour pause. He used the time to file an Read more…
One week after her son’s conviction, Donna Adelson tried to board a one-way flight to Vietnam. She didn’t make it past the jet bridge. Prosecutors charged the 73-year-old matriarch with first-degree murder, conspiracy, and solicitation Read more…
The criminal trial ended in a mistrial. The civil lawsuits are just beginning. Patrick Clancy and Lindsay Clancy have both filed suit against the medical providers who treated Lindsay before the January 2023 deaths of Read more…
Seven days of deliberation. More than thirty-six hours behind closed doors. Eighty-plus witnesses. Three hundred exhibits. And when the jury in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial finally reported to Judge William Sullivan for the third time Read more…
Barry Morphew is facing a new legal problem while awaiting trial in Suzanne Morphew’s death. A Colorado judge says video from an alleged Denver hit-and-run clearly shows Morphew during an encounter that prosecutors now say Read more…
Look past the verdict watch and the Lindsay Clancy case has become something much stranger. We are judging the jurors for failing to agree. We are judging Patrick Clancy for how he grieves, where he Read more…
Tyler Robinson entered a not-guilty plea after Judge Tony Graf sent the Charlie Kirk case to trial on aggravated murder and six other charges. Prosecutors say their preliminary case includes campus surveillance, a rifle recovered Read more…
There is a persistent assumption that Lindsay Clancy rejected some compromise and forced everyone into this trial. Her lawyer says that never happened. Kevin Reddington says prosecutors did not offer a plea deal. With three Read more…
Charlie Adelson’s defense at trial was that he was being extorted. A periodontist pulling in over three million a year told a jury he was so terrified of two hitmen that he set up a Read more…
Apparently there is now an internet-approved timetable for grieving your children, and Patrick Clancy failed to consult it. Patrick eventually relocated to New York and remarried after losing Cora, Dawson and Callan. He also publicly Read more…
The Lindsay Clancy jury didn’t merely deadlock. According to Kevin Reddington, its foreperson raised a problem involving one juror and the court’s reasonable-doubt instructions. Reddington wanted that juror removed. Judge William Sullivan refused, correctly noting Read more…
A Massachusetts jury spent five weeks, heard from more than eighty witnesses, and still couldn’t agree on what to do with Lindsay Clancy. Now her attorney’s own attempt to fix that has become its own Read more…
Eighty witnesses. Five weeks. Three hundred exhibits. And Lindsay Clancy’s jury still can’t agree on the one question that decides everything — was she psychotic when her three children died, or wasn’t she. Judge Sullivan gave Read more…
There are two timelines running through the Nolan Wells case, and they don’t match up. The first belongs to the physical evidence. Nolan’s phone has been with his family since July 5. On July 15, Read more…
Mica Miller called police at least seven times reporting harassment, tire slashing, and surveillance, telling officers she was afraid for her life. Every single time, her husband John-Paul Miller had already gotten to the narrative Read more…
A woman doesn’t call someone back if she’s being controlled by a voice in her head. That’s the argument prosecutors made to a Plymouth County jury weighing whether Lindsay Clancy is criminally responsible for killing Read more…
Prosecutors called Kirk Heilbrun to help prove Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible for killing her three children. Instead, the forensic psychologist told jurors this was a serious suicide attempt accompanied by killing her children out Read more…
Duane “Keffe D” Davis spent eighteen years narrating his own guilt — to federal agents in a 2008 proffer, to Las Vegas police in 2009, to a documentary crew in 2017, and in a 2019 Read more…
On April 25, 2024, Mica Miller served her husband, Myrtle Beach pastor John-Paul Miller, with divorce papers. Forty-eight hours later she was found dead at a North Carolina state park, in what was ruled a Read more…
Twenty minutes. That’s how long prosecutors say Lindsay Clancy had after sending her husband Patrick out for a CVS run and Thai takeout — and, they argued, exactly how long it took her to kill Read more…