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Patrick Clancy's Online Accusers Face WHAT Next?! Sep 13, 2026

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Patrick Clancy's lawyer says there may be consequences for people spreading false claims that Patrick was involved in the deaths of his children. Howard Cooper's September 8 statement said law enforcement had been notified and described an escalating defamation campaign that had produced threats to Patrick's reputation, livelihood and life. The public record has not implicated Patrick in the deaths of Cora, Dawson and Callan.

The warning arrived after Lindsay Clancy's trial ended in a mistrial on September 4. Patrick had testified as the Commonwealth's first witness and described Lindsay's decline, the errands that took him away from the house, his return home and the 911 call. Lindsay's lawyers acknowledged that she killed the children while arguing that severe mental illness left her without criminal responsibility. The prosecution argued the acts were deliberate.

Outside court, another case was being built without charges, rules of evidence or a judge. Patrick's move to New York, his remarriage and his decision to forgive Lindsay were picked apart online. Kevin Reddington was then asked about the conspiracy theories and said Patrick had not been accused by him. He also said he did not dismiss internet investigators and praised social-media users for finding facts and doing investigations.

Tony Brueski is joined by retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott to examine why unsupported accusations can feel persuasive once a community decides someone looks suspicious. Dreeke focuses on the behavioral shortcuts that make a theory self-reinforcing. Scott examines the expectation that grief must look permanent and publicly recognizable before strangers will accept it as genuine.
Patrick rebuilt parts of his life after losing three children. His attorney is now challenging people who turned that survival into suspicion. Where does true-crime discussion end and a real-world campaign against a private person begin?

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Timothy Hudson’s Parents Are Fighting Over WHAT?! Sep 12, 2026

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Timothy Hudson’s parents are fighting over child support while he waits for trial in the Anna Kepner cruise ship murder case. The new petition from Shauntel Hudson asks a Florida family court to address payments she says Thomas Hudson failed to make and to reconsider how much he should owe.

Shauntel says Thomas once agreed to pay $2,129 each month for three children. The support amount later declined to $1,092 as fewer children remained covered. Her filing alleges that several months went unpaid and says Thomas earns more than the income reflected in the existing arrangement. Thomas disputes both assertions, and a judge has not decided the dispute.

The money case is separate from Timothy’s federal prosecution, but the records expose the same fractured family environment his defense says it needs to investigate. His lawyers sought a continuance because they have not had the access to certain relatives they say is necessary to complete their work. They also must prepare for a Miller hearing, where the court examines a juvenile defendant’s background before a life-without-parole sentence could be imposed.

U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom granted the unopposed request and moved the trial to November 2, 2026. The plea-agreement deadline is October 23. Timothy has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and an additional serious federal charge in Anna’s death aboard the Carnival Horizon.

The federal case is asking for family history while the family case is producing allegations about money, parenting, and who was responsible for which child. The support dispute does not decide guilt or innocence. It documents another conflict among the relatives Timothy’s defense says it still needs to investigate before trial.

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Lindsay Clancy Went to Trial Without WHAT?! Sep 12, 2026

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Lindsay Clancy’s defense attorney says prosecutors never put a plea offer on the table before her first trial. Kevin Reddington’s claim matters because Clancy was indicted on three counts of first-degree murder, a charging decision that kept mandatory life without parole in play if jurors convicted her at that level.

The defense asked jurors to find that postpartum psychosis left Clancy without criminal responsibility. Prosecutors argued that mental illness did not prevent her from understanding that her actions were wrong or from choosing differently. After seven days of deliberations, Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4, 2026. The charges remain unresolved, and the next status hearing is scheduled for September 29.

At the same time, Patrick Clancy and Lindsay Clancy are pursuing separate civil cases over the medical treatment that preceded the deaths of their three children. Patrick’s wrongful-death suit and Lindsay’s malpractice suit overlap on four defendants: Jennifer Tufts, Rebecca Jollotta, Aster Mental Health, and South Shore Health System. Lindsay’s case reaches further, naming additional clinicians and hospitals. Those filings allege poor coordination, missed warning signs, misdiagnosis, and a medication course that worsened her condition.

Patrick’s complaint says eight different medications were prescribed within three weeks. Tony Brueski, Bob Motta, and Robin Dreeke connect the criminal and civil sides of the case and separate the legal questions each track must answer. One asks whether Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible.

The other asks whether providers failed in the care they delivered before the deaths. With a possible retrial still hanging over the case, which form of accountability should matter most?

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Lindsay Clancy's Jury Came One Vote From WHAT?! Sep 12, 2026

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The Lindsay Clancy mistrial ended a weeks-long trial with no verdict, yet the defense says the final divide was one vote away from acquittal. Kevin Reddington said eleven jurors favored finding Clancy not criminally responsible and a single holdout prevented a unanimous result.

The jury had deliberated for more than 38 hours over seven days. Its foreperson raised a specific concern about the holdout's treatment of reasonable doubt, but Judge William Sullivan said he would not remove or further interrogate a juror based on the dispute presented to him. Reddington then took the issue to a single justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The emergency request failed, and Sullivan declared a mistrial.

That did not end the defense effort to stop another prosecution. Reddington said he planned to seek a required finding of not guilty through a Rule 25 motion, asking Sullivan to dispose of the case without another jury. He pressed for a quick hearing and said he was ready to start over with jury selection if the judge denied the motion. Sullivan scheduled the next hearing for September 29, 2026, with any new trial dependent on the court's calendar and the prosecution's decision.

Tony Brueski and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta trace what that sequence means in practical terms. Bob addresses whether an 11-1 defense-reported split weakens the case for a retrial and what prosecutors would have to reassess after the first jury. He also explains why a new panel can reach a completely different outcome on largely unchanged evidence.

District Attorney Timothy Cruz said he would review the case with his team before deciding whether to try Clancy again. Patrick Clancy's attorney said another trial would be "extraordinarily painful" for Patrick and his family. The next fight is no longer over the first jury's verdict. There was none. It is over whether the Commonwealth should ask a second jury for one.

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What The Adelson Family Did After Losing Custody Sep 12, 2026

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A custody ruling is where this entire case starts. A judge told Wendi Adelson she couldn't move her two sons away from their father, FSU law professor Dan Markel. Prosecutors say Wendi's mother, Donna Adelson, offered Markel a million dollars to undo that ruling. He said no. What happened next: two men drove five hours from Miami in a rented Prius and shot Markel twice in the head in his own garage, hours after he'd dropped his sons at preschool and gone to the gym. He never made it out of his car. He was 41. Investigators traced the payment for the hit through a family dental office near Fort Lauderdale — 44 checks signed by Donna herself, $138,000 funneled through a woman who never worked a day at the practice, and a toll transponder receipt logging every mile the killers drove. That office belonged to Donna's son, Charlie Adelson, a periodontist making three million a year from a family with more than eight million in combined accounts. Prosecutors say Charlie orchestrated his former brother-in-law's murder and funneled the payments through his own practice, with his mother washing the cash before handing it off. At trial, Charlie told the jury he was the true victim — extorted by the hitmen, forced to pay them in installments. Prosecutor Georgia Cappleman asked him one question about sending his girlfriend to collect an extortion payment. The jury took three hours to convict. Five people have now been convicted in a case that began with a family that couldn't accept losing.
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Timothy Hudson Cruise Ship Murder: Parents Fight Over What? Sep 12, 2026

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Thomas Hudson alleged in custody filings that his ex-wife Shauntel took their children on the Carnival Horizon without his consent. He alleged she was responsible for their supervision and that the living arrangements were inappropriate. Shauntel testified under oath that the three teenagers chose to share a cabin — she called them “like the Three Amigos.” She also confirmed Timothy was on ADHD and insomnia medication and hadn’t taken the insomnia meds for two nights on the cruise, including the night before Anna Kepner’s body was found.

That same woman just filed a child support petition against Thomas. She says he owes her back payments and that the court should order him to pay more going forward. Timothy has been locked up since mid-June, facing first-degree murder charges as an adult in his stepsister’s death. The trial date is November 2. A plea agreement must happen by October 23 or it goes to a jury.

The original support order covered three kids at $2,129 a month. One aged out. Timothy went to federal detention. The number is now $1,092 for a single child. Timothy hasn’t lived under Shauntel’s roof in nearly a year. Thomas had already gone to court before the cruise, accusing Shauntel of keeping the kids from him. His lawyer asked for 140 days of make-up custody exchanges — that’s how many Shauntel had allegedly blocked.

Anna’s ex-boyfriend stated publicly that the stepbrother had climbed on top of Anna during a FaceTime call. Timothy’s own step-grandmother called the cabin arrangement “a recipe for disaster.” The person demanding more child support is the same person whose decisions allegedly put those kids in that cabin.

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Lindsay Clancy Case: Who Put Tim Cruz on Notice Before Sept. 29? Sep 12, 2026

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The Lindsay Clancy case has moved from one deadlocked jury to a much wider fight over what happens next. Eric Faddis, defense attorney and former prosecutor, joins True Crime Today to connect Kevin Reddington's post-mistrial strategy, Patrick Clancy's response to online accusations, and Tim Cruz's decision on a second prosecution.
Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4, 2026, after about 38 hours of jury deliberations over seven days. Reddington says the split was 11-1 in favor of acquittal. He then asked President Trump to consider a pardon that a president has no power to grant in a state case. He has also said Lindsay Clancy will not take a plea involving jail time.

The next scheduled court date is September 29, with a Rule 25 matter among the issues set for argument.
Patrick Clancy is dealing with a different legal problem around the same case. His attorney Howard Cooper says Patrick and his family have been targeted by a destructive defamation campaign built around claims that Patrick was involved in his children's deaths. Cooper said every appropriate measure would be pursued and that law enforcement had been notified.

Cruz remains the person who decides whether the Commonwealth tries Lindsay Clancy again. After the mistrial, he said his office believed she was in control of her actions and described the case as cruel and calculated. He has not announced the next charging decision.

Eric explains why each piece matters to that choice. The defense has a jury result it can use as leverage. Patrick's legal team is trying to stop a parallel campaign outside the courthouse. Prosecutors must decide whether the same case, a changed case, or no second trial best serves their office.

September 29 is the first major point where those choices can begin to harden.

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Alex Murdaugh's Trial Is Going Somewhere Neither Side Wanted Sep 11, 2026

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Judge Debra McCaslin just moved Alex Murdaugh's murder retrial to Sumter County — a location the defense never requested and the prosecution never suggested. The defense had pushed hard for Charleston, even offering to permanently waive all venue appeals if McCaslin gave them their preferred city. She didn't. The prosecution opposed Charleston on cost and logistics but never fought for a specific alternative. McCaslin made the call herself. Her eight-page order lays out why the trial had to leave Colleton County entirely. The Murdaugh family held the prosecutor's seat in the 14th Circuit for eighty-six consecutive years. That dynastic control contaminated the jury pool beyond repair. Becky Hill's conviction for jury tampering, obstruction, and perjury made the courthouse itself a liability. During the original 2023 trial, fewer than one in seven prospective jurors qualified to serve, and McCaslin says that number would be worse now. Sumter County sits in a completely different judicial circuit with roughly three times the population. The retrial is April 5, 2027, with McCaslin personally running jury selection. The defense's failed push for Charleston has a consequence: without their preferred venue, the promise to waive appeals is off the table. If this retrial ends in a conviction, venue stays a live issue all the way to the state Supreme Court.

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What Patrick Clancy Said About Facing a Second Trial Sep 11, 2026

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Patrick Clancy testified against his former wife once. His attorney has now said what a second trial would mean for him, and the district attorney has to decide whether to ask. Eric Faddis, defense attorney and former prosecutor, joins True Crime Today to explain how much a surviving father's wishes count.

Lindsay Clancy's trial ended in a mistrial September 4, 2026, after 38 hours of deliberation. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington says the jury was 11-1 for acquittal. That same day, Patrick's attorney released a statement saying the prospect of a second trial is extraordinarily painful for him and that his focus is preserving the memory of Cora, Dawson, and Callan. DA Tim Cruz said the facts are that Lindsay Clancy killed her three children and that the evidence suggested she was in control of her actions. He called it the cruel and calculated killing of three innocents. He has not decided whether to retry her.

The first-degree murder case was built on a January 24, 2023 timeline: an Apple Maps search for a Plymouth restaurant at 4:13 p.m., a takeout order at 5:10 p.m., and Patrick leaving to pick it up at 5:54 p.m. Prosecutors argued she was getting him out of the house. The defense argued postpartum psychosis and did not dispute that she caused the deaths.

Eric explains how a prosecutor's office reviews a case after eleven jurors lean the other way. Whether the top charge was a trap. How failed expert testimony gets rebuilt. Where an elected DA's political math comes in. And whether a father asking to be spared can move a triple-homicide prosecution.

Lindsay Clancy is charged with three counts of first-degree murder. She is held at Tewksbury Hospital. Both sides return to court September 29.

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The Adelson Family Murder: Every Payment, Every Lie, Every Verdict Sep 11, 2026

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Donna Adelson allegedly offered Dan Markel a million dollars to let her daughter relocate with his children. When he refused, prosecutors say she helped arrange his murder — paid through the family dental office, 44 checks she signed to a woman who never worked there, $138,000 in documented payments, cash she allegedly washed before handing it off. The killers drove from Miami in a rental car that left a toll transponder receipt on every mile.Five people are serving time for the FSU law professor's murder. Charlie Adelson took the stand and told a jury he was being extorted by the hitmen — a $3,000 monthly layaway plan through the dental practice. The jury took three hours. Donna tried to board a one-way flight to Vietnam a week after Charlie's conviction, confessed to a jailhouse informant, wrote a handwritten script to buy false testimony, and told the sentencing judge she'd never had a parking ticket.This is the full Adelson conspiracy told start to finish — from the custody ruling the family couldn't accept, to the Dolce Vita tape, to what Wendi Adelson's ex-boyfriend says she told him five days before Dan was shot. Five convicted. Two still uncharged. The investigation is technically open. The children live in South Florida. Their last name is Adelson.

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