Two witnesses with nothing in common except the same case 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 resistance bands inside the family’s Summer Street home Read more…
Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to four murders in open court, out loud, four separate times. Now he is trying to take all of it back. So can he actually do that? That is the question, and the answer involves one sentence he said under oath that he is going to Read more…
Patrick Clancy took the stand today in the murder trial of his wife, Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother accused of strangling their 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 Read more…
A woman admitted for thoughts about harming her children told a hospital those thoughts were gone. The hospital let her go home. Patrick Clancy took his wife to Massachusetts General on New Year’s Eve 2022 after she disclosed intrusive thoughts about the children. She was moved to McLean in the Read more…
“She was having one of her best days.” That is how Patrick Clancy described January 24, 2023 to the jury deciding whether his ex-wife is criminally responsible for the deaths of their three children. He described a morning where Dawson dressed himself for the first time and the parents texted Read more…
There was one thing David Anthony Burke wanted to know about Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s pregnancy, and a detective read his exact words to a Los Angeles courtroom. That is where the d4vd preliminary hearing arrived in its July 24 session, and it is the material this episode walks through in Read more…
The connection between these two cases is not the crime. It is the signature. Ohio put a marriage license in front of a judge for a fifteen-year-old who was seven months pregnant, and it was approved. California deputies documented telling David Burke how old Celeste Rivas Hernandez was, and filed Read more…
The Nolan Wells 911 call opens with the strangest soundtrack imaginable: cheerful hold music playing over the commotion of a boat taking on water. Tony plays the uncut audio from start to finish and examines what is happening underneath it. Before the dispatcher ever picks up, the recording is already Read more…
Ohio’s attorney general did not hedge. Sixteen children were taken out of a home on Ohmer Street in Hamden, and Andy Wilson did not soften what came next. Based on what he had seen, he said, waiting a certain amount of time longer carried a very high probability of a Read more…
The prosecution’s opening statement at Plymouth Superior Court used one adjective for part of what Lindsay Clancy did to herself: superficial. Kevin Reddington answered it with photographs, a fracture list, and a medical record that describes a burst fracture at the top of her spine caused by headfirst impact onto Read more…