The prosecution’s rebuttal case in the Lindsay Clancy trial took an unexpected turn when its second expert witness handed the jury a motive rooted in love instead of premeditation. Kirk Heilbrun, a forensic psychologist who examined Clancy at Tewksbury Hospital over three days, testified that her account of hearing a Read more…
Dr. Kirk Heilbrun, a forensic psychologist called as a prosecution rebuttal witness, spent another day on the stand 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 Read more…
Lindsay Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is on trial in Plymouth Superior Court on three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, accused of killing her children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 7 months — with exercise resistance bands inside the family’s Summer Street home on January Read more…
Lindsay Clancy, the 34-year-old 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, is back in Plymouth Superior Court, and this week the prosecution brought out its Read more…
To the prosecution’s psychiatrist. The Commonwealth put Dr. Avram Mack on the stand in the Lindsay Clancy trial to say she was responsible for her actions. Under oath, he repeated what she’d told him: a man’s voice, laughing, saying this was her last chance. Jennifer Coffindaffer, retired from the Bureau, Read more…
Lindsay Clancy’s final psychiatric appointment was January 23, 2023. The killings were January 24. That single date is where the Lindsay Clancy trial’s guilt arguments start to wobble, and Jennifer Coffindaffer, retired from the FBI after 25 years, is here to defend them anyway. The defense rested on August 21, Read more…
Two phones defined August 21 in the Jared Bridegan murder case, and the court could only reach one of them. The first belongs to Kirsten Bridegan. A judge halted Mario Fernandez’s trial mid-testimony because Kirsten defied an order to surrender that phone for extraction on behalf of Shanna Gardner’s lawyers. Read more…
Nolan Wells’ DA and the family agreed to a joint forensic examination of the phone that left Horn Island with his friends. A month passed. The DA sent a 48-hour letter. The deal collapsed. That phone has been sitting in a drawer for six weeks while Snapchat and WhatsApp servers Read more…
Day 5 of the Duane “Keffe D” Davis trial belonged to a question detectives asked him in 2009: what went through your head when Tupac Shakur died? His recorded answer opens this episode, and everything that follows tracks who profited from the story he’s told for years. The retired detective Read more…
The prosecution rested after fourteen days and more than seventy witnesses. Before trial, the defense conceded that Lindsay Clancy killed her children. The prosecution’s job was to prove she was sane and acting with premeditation when she did it. After three weeks, what they may have proven instead is how Read more…