The state closed its case against Lindsay Clancy this week, and Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague didn’t waste time on subtlety. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is accused of strangling her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 7 months — with exercise resistance bands inside the family’s Read more…
An hour is a long time to spend telling a jury they’ve been played, but that’s what Kevin Reddington did in closing arguments for Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother charged with strangling her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise resistance bands inside Read more…
Two mothers. Two psychotic episodes, according to their defenses. Two insanity verdicts — one already delivered, one hanging over a Plymouth County jury room. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to map the road Andrea Yates has traveled since 2006 and measure how much of it waits for Lindsay Clancy. Read more…
A guilty verdict in the Lindsay Clancy trial sends her somewhere no expert has fully described on camera — until now. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski for the prison episode: what life without parole actually means for a woman who cannot move her own body and whose mind is Read more…
Day 7 ended Mario Fernandez’s murder trial with closing arguments from both sides and a prosecution rebuttal. The defense had called just two witnesses — staff from the Discovery School who described Fernandez and Gardner as caring, involved parents — before resting its case. The prosecution’s closing asked the jury Read more…
Every segment of this episode has one comment that turned out to be true, and in each case it hurt the person who posted it. The Patrick-did-it crowd said a nurse would never search for the carotid artery. The search is on Lindsay Clancy’s phone, and her own defense attorney Read more…
The prosecution spent Day 7 connecting a gang title to a murder charge. A retired Compton Police Department detective took the stand and told the jury exactly where Duane “Keffe D” Davis sat in the hierarchy of the South Side Compton Crips. Robert Ladd tracked Davis and the gang for Read more…
An FBI profiler thinks Lindsay Clancy is a psychopath who was sick of her kids. That’s how one commenter puts it, citing Pat Brown, with Matt Walsh as a second vote. The commenter rejects both of them. She’s closer to the record than the people she quoted. Pat Brown was Read more…
Dr. Gregory Saathoff, a forensic psychiatrist who works with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, 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 bands inside the family’s Read more…
Kirk Heilbrun told twelve jurors that Lindsay Clancy is still grieving her children. That she spent months trying to get help. That she is not self-centered. That she used the words “I have lost everything, and I don’t want to be here.” He said he would not consider her a Read more…