Day 2 of d4vd’s preliminary hearing put a dollar figure on the alleged motive and a location pin on the alleged cover-up. Prosecutors called two financial witnesses who testified Burke grossed more than $10 million Read more…
Nolan Wells — before the independent autopsy came back undetermined, before the state released its findings, before any medical examiner could say how Nolan Wells died, a combined $125,000 in reward money hit the table. Read more…
Nolan Wells case — an independent forensic pathologist examined Nolan’s body and delivered his findings: cause and manner of death are both undetermined. But the pathologist also reported that he never received the neck structures Read more…
The d4vd preliminary hearing opened with a courtroom split in two. Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s parents stayed for the graphic testimony after being offered the chance to leave. Burke, according to courtroom reporters, showed no visible Read more…
Lindsay Clancy’s trial is underway in Plymouth Superior Court. The facts are not in dispute. She killed her three children in their Duxbury home on January 24, 2023. The question is whether postpartum psychosis made Read more…
An eighteen-year-old’s phone left Horn Island on a sinking boat. The eighteen-year-old didn’t. His friends had it. His mother didn’t know. Christine Wonsley found out her son was missing at 11 PM on July 4th Read more…
The facts in the Lindsay Clancy case are not in dispute. She killed her three children. Her defense admits it. Her husband admits it. The question splitting the public is whether she is a murderer Read more…
The Joseph Duggar case keeps drawing comparisons to 2003 — and the family at the center of it is the reason why. When Kendra Duggar’s relatives discovered a child had been harmed, they made the Read more…
Before January 24, 2023, Lindsay Clancy had done everything a struggling mother is supposed to do. She sought treatment. She called hotlines. She admitted herself to hospitals. She filled every prescription. The defense argues the Read more…
Lindsay Clancy is on trial for the murders of her three children in Duxbury, Massachusetts. Her defense concedes she killed them. They argue she was in the grip of postpartum psychosis and could not appreciate Read more…
The DA informed Nolan Wells’ family that the case will go before a grand jury. The internet heard “criminal charges.” The DA’s office meant something else entirely — a procedural checkpoint Jackson County applies to Read more…
In the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, the prosecution wants the jury to know what she did for a living — and to draw a very specific conclusion from it. She was a labor and delivery Read more…
The pattern matters more than any single ruling. In eleven days, the prosecution in the Lindsay Clancy trial made three moves that all point the same direction: narrowing who gets to explain her mind to Read more…
The Lindsay Clancy verdict has two possible outcomes, and neither one of them ends with her going home. Most people following this trial do not realize that. A finding of lack of criminal responsibility in Read more…
In 2015, a statement went out under Josh Duggar’s name that admitted he’d been living a double life, admitted he’d been unfaithful, and admitted in his own words that he had “acted inexcusably” and “hurt Read more…
The Lindsay Clancy insanity defense has a problem, and it is not the evidence — it is who a Massachusetts judge will and will not let into the courtroom. Kevin Reddington’s plan was to have Read more…
The Lindsay Clancy murder trial is underway in Plymouth Superior Court, and the Commonwealth’s most damaging piece of evidence may be something she wrote herself. Prosecutors have told the court that months before her three Read more…
Between September 2022 and January 2023, Lindsay Clancy was prescribed at least nine psychiatric medications by providers who diagnosed her with anxiety and depression. According to both civil lawsuits filed in her case, what she Read more…
Nolan Wells died off a Mississippi barrier island and nobody will say how. Lindsay Clancy is facing a Massachusetts jury and nobody can say what she understood. Two cases, one mailbag. Nolan Wells was eighteen, Read more…
A full breakdown of the Nolan Wells case in the order it actually happened — every logged timestamp, every competing account, start to finish. Two piles of material come out of that exercise and they Read more…
Everybody knows Lindsay Clancy was sick. The defense will prove it, the prosecution won’t seriously contest it, and her husband has been saying it publicly since the beginning. That’s not the fight. The fight is Read more…
The Siders family in Ohio and the Duggar family in Arkansas have never been mentioned in the same breath. After you hear this, you will not be able to separate them. Sixteen children were pulled Read more…
A second autopsy is supposed to be a backstop. In the Nolan Wells case it has become the whole argument — because the family arranged one, sent their eighteen-year-old’s body to Washington, D.C. for it, Read more…
Everybody arguing about the Nolan Wells case online is arguing about the wrong hour. Not the autopsy. Not the phone. The boat ride home — the moment a group of eighteen-year-olds untied from a barrier Read more…
There’s a photograph from a Fourth of July boat trip, and Nolan Wells is the only person of color in it. Days later, he’s the only one from that group who isn’t coming home. That Read more…
One conversation. Three cases. Every angle covered. Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial begins with jury selection July 20. The prosecution’s key evidence: she allegedly checked Apple Maps to time her husband’s fifty-four-minute errand. The defense: nine Read more…
Patrick Clancy’s three children are dead. His wife killed them. And he’s standing in a courtroom pointing at her doctors, not at her. Lindsay Clancy faces three counts of first-degree murder for the January 2023 Read more…
Lindsay Clancy checked a mapping application to calculate how long her husband’s errand would take. Then, according to prosecutors, she used that fifty-four-minute window to end the lives of Cora, Dawson, and Callan. The defense Read more…
Nobody made him do it. That is the part worth sitting with in the Joseph Duggar case. When the Josh Duggar story broke in 2015, most of the family said nothing. Joseph did not. He Read more…
Ohio’s Attorney General used one word to describe the Siders case that most people skipped right past: “intrafamily.” That word isn’t an accident. It carries implications that go well beyond the sixteen counts of child Read more…