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Was Lindsay Clancy's Doctor Qualified To Rule It Out? Aug 13, 2026

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Ruling out a condition you have never encountered is a different act than ruling out one you know. That question runs through the medical testimony in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial.

Clancy stands charged with three counts of first-degree murder, all pleaded not guilty, in the January 24, 2023 deaths of her three children. She has not contested causing their deaths. The defense claims postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder are why she is not criminally responsible. The state's argument is that she acted knowingly and should be held accountable.

Dr. Alia Goodheart of McLean Hospital testified her caseload had never included one, and could not say how many postpartum depression patients she had treated in twenty years. Dr. Jennifer Tufts testified she was not certain how rare the condition is, and that she had not treated any such patients in the period before Clancy came to her.

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski for part two of three. Shavaun has practiced for more than thirty years across trauma, anxiety, depression, and the psychology of violence.

The conversation covers the records that were never requested, the releases that were never signed, and fourteen video appointments with a psychiatrist who was never in the same room with her. It covers what it means that Clancy spent her career as a labor and delivery nurse and was treated as a reliable reporter by everyone who saw her.

It also covers the care that held up. A psychiatric nurse practitioner gave Clancy her personal cell number and called her on a day off.

Neither has admitted liability.

Julie Paul launched South Shore Hospital's Perinatal Behavioral Health Program in 2018 and met Clancy through Clancy's then-mother-in-law, a nurse at the same hospital. Their contact lasted about ten days because Paul was leaving for another job. Tufts finished her residency in July 2022, the month before Clancy's first appointment.

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Is Lindsay Clancy's Voice Story Even Believable? Aug 13, 2026

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Four clinicians treated Lindsay Clancy in the months before her children died, and each of them has now testified about what they saw. None of them described psychosis. Her defense says she was hearing a voice instructing her to kill her three children and then herself.

Clancy's not guilty pleas cover three counts of first-degree murder in the Duxbury deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan on January 24, 2023. The defense has never argued she wasn't responsible for their deaths. Prosecutors contend she planned it and carried it out knowingly.

Tony Brueski brings in psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, who has practiced for more than thirty years across trauma, anxiety, depression, and the psychology of violence, for part one of a three-part conversation.

The starting point is how uncommon this is. Prevalence figures cluster around one to two cases per thousand deliveries. Researchers describe episodes where disorientation and total clarity trade places inside the same day, which is why a patient can look fine in a twenty-five-minute appointment.

Shavaun addresses the timing. This illness normally shows up within days or weeks of a birth. Callan had turned eight months.

She separates psychosis from psychopathy, explains where an intrusive thought stops and a command voice starts, and takes on why Clancy told her providers one thing and her husband another. She closes on the fact prosecutors lean on hardest: that Clancy scheduled her own appointments, advocated for herself, and presented with clear, linear thinking right up to the day before.

Her memoir, Nightbird, draws on the same clinical background. Two more parts follow this one.

Clancy survived a suicide attempt the same day and is paraplegic. She attends her trial in a wheelchair. Shavaun addresses what it means that her final appointment with a psychiatrist happened on January 23, the day before, and that the notes from it recorded a flat, anxious, numb mood with no motivation.

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What Patrick Clancy Says He Was Doing That Evening Aug 13, 2026

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One line of forensic testimony in the Lindsay Clancy trial has convinced an enormous number of people that her husband was the one holding those exercise bands. Search Lindsay Clancy fingerprints and you will find it everywhere, usually with his name attached to it.

Trooper Jonathan O'Loughlin testified that investigators recovered no usable fingerprints from the knife or the three bands. If her prints were not on them, the argument runs, somebody else was holding them. Tony Brueski takes that argument seriously enough to check it against the rest of the same testimony.

Then he keeps going down the list. What a forensic toxicologist told the jury about the four medications in her blood. What an interior bedroom door actually does. Who was on the other end of two phone calls that evening and what they heard. Who is testifying at Plymouth Superior Court, and which of those witnesses are named in the civil suits.

And a phone conversation from the first anniversary that has been sitting in the open for two years while everyone argued past it.

There is a difference between no usable fingerprints and no DNA, and the two keep getting blended together. Her DNA was on those bands, and both sides agreed to it in open court.

On August 4 she answered the judge out loud, more than once, agreeing that the Commonwealth would not have to prove certain forensic facts about the blood, the bands and the DNA. Her attorney told the court they had not been contesting the government's case in chief at all.

If you have argued about this case with anybody, get the whole list first. Then argue.

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Are Lindsay Clancy And Alex Murdaugh Fighting One Word? Aug 13, 2026

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One trial is live. One retrial is more than a year out. Tony Brueski takes listener questions on both in a single combined cut. His guest is Robin Dreeke, retired FBI Special Agent and former chief of the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program.

The Lindsay Clancy trial is in the middle of medical testimony at Plymouth Superior Court, with the case expected to run six to eight weeks and more than a hundred and eighty witnesses on the list. Two treating psychiatrists have testified they saw no psychosis. One of them acknowledged she does not think she has ever treated a patient with postpartum psychosis, a condition that affects roughly one to two mothers per thousand births.

The Alex Murdaugh retrial is tentatively set for April 5, 2027 before Judge Debra McCaslin. Pretrial proceedings are running out of Lexington County. Prosecutors have moved to admit his 2023 trial testimony and to bar polygraph evidence and third-party guilt. The defense has demanded a fresh Brady and Giglio search with written certification inside thirty days, independent DNA testing, and a change of venue.

Different states, different crimes, different defendants. What lines up is the fight over what the record does not contain and who is responsible for that.

Lindsay Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and is presumed innocent. Her defense argues she was not criminally responsible. Alex Murdaugh's convictions were overturned by the South Carolina Supreme Court. He awaits retrial and is presumed innocent. He has denied the killings throughout.

Robin Dreeke takes all three segments and listeners run the questions. Postpartum psychosis affects roughly one to two mothers per thousand births. 988 is available if you need it.

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Courtney Clenney's Lawyers Did THIS the Moment She Pleaded Guilty Aug 12, 2026

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A killing with an eyewitness account contradicted by the autopsy. Video of the defendant striking the victim. Neighbors calling 911 six times in three months. On True Crime Today, Tony Brueski asks what more a prosecution needs, because in the Courtney Clenney case, all of it added up to six years.

Clenney stabbed Christian Obumseli in their Miami apartment on April 3, 2022, and told detectives she threw the knife from ten feet away in self-defense. The medical examiner found a forceful downward thrust instead. She told the 911 operator the wound was in his shoulder. It was in his chest. For four months after his death she remained free, photographed at a hotel bar days later, until an arrest in Hawaii and a bond denial that cited her money and her history of violating court orders.

On August 10, 2026, the second-degree murder charge vanished. In its place came manslaughter with a deadly weapon, a guilty plea, and a six-year sentence with four years of jail credit already earned. Tony walks through the honest case for the deal, including the battered-partner evidence and the family's approval, and the harder case against it, built entirely from the state's own words and filings.

Then there is the twist from the hearing itself, a legal maneuver by her attorneys that concerns money, a Florida statute, and what Clenney is allowed to do once she is out. It is the detail that turns a sentencing story into something else.

Christian was twenty-seven, a young man his mother asked the world to remember as more than a case name. This one stays with the facts, in the order that makes them land.

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Lindsay Clancy Trial: What the Medical Examiner Said About How Cora and Dawson Died Aug 12, 2026

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The Lindsay Clancy murder trial delivered its most clinical — and most brutal — testimony yet today. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is 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. She faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and attorney Kevin Reddington is building an insanity defense around claims of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.

Three witnesses took the stand. Nichole Bradley, Assistant Deputy Superintendent with the Plymouth County Sheriff's Department, described the security watch maintained on Clancy's hospital room. Then the medical testimony began. Renee Stonebridge of the Chief Medical Examiner's Office, trained in neuropathology, testified that all three children died from asphyxia, with significant brain swelling from lost oxygen and blood supply. Dr. Barbara Olson, who conducted the autopsies on Cora and Dawson, testified that bruises found on Cora were recent, though she couldn't specify exactly when they were inflicted, and that both children would have experienced pain as they lost consciousness during strangulation. Cause of death for both: mechanical asphyxiation.

The testimony proved too much for the courtroom more than once — recesses were called as Clancy had visible emotional reactions to what was being described.

Clancy allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window after the killings and remains paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court and is expected to run several more weeks.

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Do Alex Murdaugh's Lawyers Have A Point This Time? Aug 12, 2026

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Alex Murdaugh's defense is asking a judge to move the retrial out of the entire fourteenth judicial circuit, and it is the motion people argue about most. Tony Brueski takes listener questions with Robin Dreeke, retired FBI Special Agent and former chief of the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program.

The filing calls the case among the most heavily publicized criminal prosecutions in South Carolina history. It asks the court to move the trial outside the circuit where Murdaugh's family operated for generations. His great-grandfather, grandfather and father served consecutively as the region's elected solicitor from 1920 to 2006. The circuit covers five counties: Allendale, Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton and Jasper.

Judge Debra McCaslin has left it to the state and the defense to discuss possible locations and bring her options. Pretrial proceedings are running out of her home court in Lexington County.

The listener objection is a fair one. Documentaries, books and streaming series about this family reached the whole country, not five counties. Moving the trial also means the community where Maggie and Paul Murdaugh lived and died does not get to sit in judgment.

The counterargument holds that saturation is not uniform. Jurors drawn from counties the family ran for a century carry associations jurors elsewhere do not. That is the standard a venue motion is measured against.

The defense's other pending filings include a demand for a fresh Brady and Giglio search with written certification inside thirty days, plus a bid for independent DNA testing. McCaslin has also ruled Murdaugh will appear before the new jury in street clothes and without restraints, over the state's objection.

Murdaugh's convictions were overturned, he awaits retrial, and he is presumed innocent.

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What Happened When Lindsay Clancy Finally Asked for Postpartum Help Aug 12, 2026

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By mid-December 2022, Lindsay Clancy's psychiatric nurse practitioner had exhausted her outpatient tools. Rebecca Jollotta had spent weeks adjusting medications while Clancy messaged her constantly about worsening symptoms, intrusive thoughts, and sleeplessness she could not shake.Clancy faces three first-degree murder charges in the deaths of her children at the family's Duxbury home on January 24, 2023. She has admitted to the killings. Her attorneys argue postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder left her unable to distinguish right from wrong. Prosecutors contend she planned the deaths and carried them out with intent.On December 12, Jollotta recommended partial hospitalization. Three days later the couple called to report Clancy's worst day and persistent thoughts of ending her life. Jollotta told them to seek evaluation at Massachusetts General Hospital.They chose Women & Infants Hospital in Providence instead, a postpartum-specific program. Jollotta anticipated a two-week admission. Clancy spent one day. Reddington asked on cross-examination whether the facility turned her away because staff believed she had been overmedicated.Jollotta was the sole provider who had raised a bipolar possibility, telling Clancy and her husband Patrick at a December 6 appointment that the medication reactions concerned her. Patrick dismissed the diagnosis. Jollotta never consulted Dr. Jennifer Tufts, who was prescribing to Clancy simultaneously. On redirect, prosecutor Jennifer Sprague asked whether Jollotta ever believed Clancy was experiencing postpartum psychosis. Jollotta answered that she did not.

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Lindsay Clancy Case: Psychologist Latisha Dukes Never Looked at Paul or Jollotta's Notes Aug 12, 2026

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Testimony in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial keeps circling back to one question: who actually knew what, and when. 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 Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and attorney Kevin Reddington is building an insanity defense around severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.

Under cross-examination today, Latisha Dukes, a counselor and psychologist at South Shore Hospital, confirmed she never reviewed the notes or records from Paul or Jollotta before treating Clancy — a gap defense attorneys clearly wanted the jury to sit with. Dukes testified Clancy feared getting addicted to Ativan just to be able to sleep, and that she was dealing with "unmanageable anxiety," depression, and both passive and active suicidal thoughts. On redirect, Dukes said skipping the prior notes was intentional — she wanted "fresh eyes" on the case — and added she had no role in managing Clancy's medications. Also on the stand: Duxbury Police Officer Cameron Dailey, who testified about being assigned to security detail watching Clancy at the hospital.

Prosecutors maintain Clancy understood the nature of her actions regardless of her mental state. After the killings, she allegedly tried to take her own life by jumping from a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out running errands that day and has since moved to Manhattan. The trial, underway in Plymouth Superior Court, is expected to last several weeks.

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Trooper and Therapist Testify in Clancy Trial: A Phone Call, a Theory, and a Door That Closed Aug 12, 2026

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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 Summer Street home on January 24, 2023, moved through two consequential witnesses today. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and is mounting an insanity defense built around severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication, led by attorney Kevin Reddington.

First up: Trooper Dan Lawlor, who was providing security at the hospital. On cross-examination, he testified he saw a doctor go in to consult with Clancy, and later found out that doctor had handed her his own phone to call her husband, Patrick. Lawlor also testified that he and the lead investigator discussed the possibility that a psychiatrist coached Clancy to say she was hearing voices. On re-direct, he said a separate conversation with another trooper didn't shift his testimony.

Next, Latisha Dukes, a counselor and psychologist at South Shore Hospital, testified she began treating Clancy in late November 2022 for depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and a stated wish not to be here anymore. Dukes also said Clancy had sought help at Women's and Infants Hospital before the killings and was turned away for lacking a "plan."

Prosecutors are expected to argue Clancy understood the nature of her actions despite the defense's claims. Clancy allegedly attempted suicide after the killings and is now paralyzed from the waist down. Patrick Clancy has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court and is expected to run several weeks.

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