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Lindsay Clancy's Own Nurse Practitioner Testifies: No Psychosis, No Homicidal Thoughts Aug 11, 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 into medical territory today. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and defense attorney Kevin Reddington is arguing she was in the grip of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.

Jurors heard from Julie Paul, one of Clancy's psychiatric nurse practitioners, who was cross-examined by Reddington — the key point being whether Clancy had Paul's personal cell number, which she confirmed. Then Rebecca Jollotta, certified by Postpartum Support International, described taking over Clancy's care after Paul departed the clinic. Jollotta testified to multiple medication changes, weight loss, and poor sleep, but was clear on what she didn't see: no mania, no psychosis, no suicidal or homicidal ideation. She also flagged that the medication trials were cut short rather than run the standard four weeks. Prosecutors pointed to a specific outreach from Clancy to Jollotta — concern about becoming dependent on Ativan and about intrusive thoughts — as evidence Clancy understood her own mental state.

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 running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court and is expected to run several weeks.

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Lindsay Clancy's Jury Heard THIS From The Prosecution's Side Aug 11, 2026

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The state is prosecuting Lindsay Clancy for the deaths of her three children, and the state's witness list keeps producing character testimony a defense attorney would pay for — friends, the family's nanny, people describing a loving and dedicated mom. Tony Brueski hands the microphone to the audience for eight listener questions about the trial that has true crime split down the middle.

Listeners want the collision explained: prosecutors counting pills from nine bottles to show she skipped her medication, while the defense argues those same prescriptions caused a psychosis. They want to know whether planning and psychosis can share a brain. They want someone to account for the psychiatric hospital that discharged her 19 days before her children died. And after the medical examiner's testimony about 8-month-old Callan brought court to a halt, they want permission to feel two things at once about the woman sobbing at the defense table.

The set closes on the question that outranks every legal argument in that building: who stands up for Cora, Dawson, and Callan? However you've judged this case, at least one of these questions will move you.

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Patrick Clancy Faces A Trial No Courtroom Can End Aug 11, 2026

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Inside the Lindsay Clancy murder trial there's no dispute about who caused the deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan — the defense conceded it on day one. Outside the courtroom, a second trial is running with no judge, no rules, and no end date, and Patrick Clancy is its defendant. Tony Brueski and retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke take the online case against Patrick apart.

Every element of the theory gets its turn. The verified timeline and why conspiracy communities read it as too clean. The universal instinct that points at the husband. The armchair reads on his composure, his grief, and his remarriage. The detail the theory can't digest: Patrick sued Lindsay's doctors for failing her, putting his money behind the same argument her defense makes in court.

Robin's specialty is why smart people hold beliefs that evidence should kill. By the end of this conversation you'll understand what drives every internet mob you've ever watched form. You'll also know his honest answer on whether this one ever releases its grip.

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Who Idaho Gave Kohberger After He Turned on Anne Taylor Aug 11, 2026

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When Bryan Kohberger accused Anne Taylor's defense team of coercing his guilty plea, Idaho had to find him a brand-new lawyer, and the search ended at a small general-practice firm in Moscow. Greg Rauch got the appointment on August 3, 2026, through the state's Alternate Counsel Division, the office that hires private attorneys when the public defender has a conflict. The conflict here is unavoidable: Kohberger's handwritten petition, filed July 27, claims his original lawyers convinced him to falsely confess to the University of Idaho murders and hid favorable evidence, allegations that remain unproven and unruled upon. So the man who once had a defense operation reported at more than eight million dollars — including a DNA specialist who spent nine years attacking genetic evidence for San Francisco's public defender — is starting over with an attorney whose caseload runs through bankruptcy court and family court. Rauch's first public comments confirmed he hadn't read the petition or the case file and hadn't spoken with Kohberger. He grew up in Moscow, graduated from the same university the four victims attended, and will work this case surrounded by neighbors who lived through what happened on King Road. The endgame carries a twist worthy of the filing itself: if Rauch succeeds, the plea disappears, the case moves back toward trial, and the death penalty Kohberger bargained away comes back with it. The attorney general has promised his office is ready, and Steve Goncalves says his family is prepared and confident about the outcome. Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin's loved ones thought this ended at sentencing. It didn't, and the next chapter runs straight through one unlucky lawyer's office. Follow along, because this appointment shapes everything that comes next.

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How the Guthrie, Murdaugh, and Clancy Cases Ended Up in the Same Place Aug 11, 2026

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What do the Nancy Guthrie disappearance, the Alex Murdaugh retrial, and the Lindsay Clancy murder trial have in common? In every one of them, the referee is also playing the game. That's the spine of this True Crime Today triple with Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer, a career federal investigator grading the investigations everyone else takes on faith.

In Tucson, the sheriff's office running the Guthrie case accidentally published the alleged kidnapper's Bitcoin wallet address. Coffindaffer's trace of that wallet shows no ransom was ever paid, just a single three-hundred-dollar FBI deposit sitting untouched. Direct messages to the wallet went unanswered for six months. Sheriff Nanos marked the half-year point by calling the FBI relationship great and admitting thousands of hours of video remain unreviewed.

In South Carolina, SLED investigated Becky Hill — the clerk whose verdict SLED's biggest conviction depended on. Her guilty plea skipped the jury tampering entirely, she served no prison time, and a federal judge just dismissed Alex Murdaugh's lawsuit against her. Now Murdaugh's defense demands SLED search its own files and certify in writing that nothing favorable stays buried. The demand lands on a lead investigator already tied to a separate case dismissed over undisclosed evidence, and a shirt that tested negative for human blood before the lab's own chemical made retesting impossible.

In Massachusetts, the Lindsay Clancy trial narrowed to one question when the defense stipulated to the forensics: was her mind her own the night Cora, Dawson, and Callan died? Coffindaffer calls which of the state's mind-reading evidence will land with the jury and which is already backfiring.

Murdaugh and Clancy are presumed innocent. Nancy Guthrie is still missing. Three cases, one standard. Coffindaffer applies it without flinching.

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Lindsay Clancy Trial: Nurse Practitioner Says No Suicidal Ideation, Anxiety Never Let Up Aug 10, 2026

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The medication timeline in the Lindsay Clancy trial got a lot more detailed today, courtesy of Julie Paul, the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner who treated her before the killings. 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 her attorney, Kevin Reddington, is arguing insanity based on severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.

Paul testified that Clancy's anxiety escalated once Patrick Clancy returned to work — and stuck around after that, no real relief. She also covered the sleep problems and walked through the different medications tried over time, laying out exactly the kind of trial-and-error record the defense wants jurors thinking about.

Except Paul also flatly said she never saw suicidal ideation in Clancy at any point. And she pushed back preemptively on the idea that switching medications repeatedly is itself suspicious — she called it standard practice in psychiatry, not a warning sign. Sometimes finding the right drug just takes attempts. That's not a cover-up, that's how the specialty works.

Clancy allegedly attempted suicide after the killings, jumping from a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. 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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A Mother Told Murdaugh's Investigator THIS Ten Years Ago Aug 10, 2026

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In 2015, a mother sat for an interview with a SLED agent investigating her daughter Sara's death. She later testified that she told him something that changed the picture — that Sara had talked about ending her own life, in the place and manner she died. Ten years later, that interview helped sink a murder case. The agent was David Owen, the same investigator who led the case against Alex Murdaugh.

Tony Brueski connects the collapse of the Michael Colucci prosecution to the Brady motion Murdaugh's defense filed August 5, 2026. Judge Roger Young threw out Colucci's indictment in June 2025, ruling the state failed to disclose the mother's account for nearly a decade. Owen testified he was never told. The judge sent prosecutors back to the grand jury with instructions to bring a fuller case.

Murdaugh's lawyers didn't put Owen's name in their motion. They didn't need names. The filing demands updated personnel files, internal affairs records, and misconduct findings on every officer who touched the investigation — along with new witness deals, changed statements, and a written promise from prosecutors that nothing favorable to Murdaugh sits in a drawer. It also reaches SLED's files on the Eddie Smith roadside shooting and the narcotics investigation.

The state will get to answer, and the likely answer is that this is a fishing trip built on cases that aren't this one. Judge Debra McCaslin hears it August 14, 2026. Alex Murdaugh, presumed innocent, goes to retrial in April 2027 for the murders of Maggie and Paul. The question this episode leaves behind is the one the defense is betting on: how much do you trust the file?

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Lindsay Clancy Trial: Doctor Testifies No Signs of Psychosis, Then Notes Get Contested Aug 10, 2026

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A psychiatrist with four years of residency and roughly 50 postpartum depression patients under her belt told jurors today she's seen real psychosis up close — and she didn't see it in Lindsay Clancy. Dr. Jennifer Tufts returned to the stand for redirect in the Duxbury mother's murder trial, where Clancy, 34, 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 mounting an insanity defense built on claims of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.

Tufts's testimony cuts directly against that theory — she's not speculating, she's speaking from experience with patients who were genuinely in the grip of psychosis, and by her read, Clancy wasn't one of them.

On recross, Reddington didn't let it sit. He and Tufts sparred over her own clinical notes, disagreeing on what was written and, more importantly, what it meant. It's the kind of exchange that reminds you medical records aren't verdicts — they're interpretations, and this trial is going to be full of dueling ones.

After the killings, Clancy allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window, leaving her 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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Lindsay Clancy's Defense Agreed to THIS in Open Court Aug 10, 2026

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Prosecutors in the Lindsay Clancy trial say the evidence shows planning: a quiet house, a window of time, a sequence carried out start to finish. Their opening called it intentional, rational, and swift. The defense says a disease had already taken her mind before any of it began. On this True Crime Today conversation, Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer take on the idea that trips up almost everyone who follows this case. A mind can be organized enough to plan something and still be broken. Why is that so hard to accept?

Coffindaffer has spent a career around cases where the act was methodical and the actor was profoundly ill — the two are not opposites, no matter how much a jury wants them to be. She walks through how psychosis and planning coexist, why organized behavior feels like proof of sanity to twelve ordinary people, and how each side in this trial is using that instinct.

Week two handed both sides new material. The defense stipulated to the forensic evidence on August 4. Clancy's lawyers don't dispute she caused the deaths of her children, Cora, Dawson, and Callan, so the trial is purely about criminal responsibility. The state countered with structure: a toxicologist on the medication levels in her blood, a psychiatrist describing her as calm and organized six days after the deaths, diary pages prosecutors say show a woman tracking her own intact mind. The defense's answer never changes: postpartum psychosis swings hour to hour, and none of those snapshots is the night of January 24.

Coffindaffer calls which of the state's moves will land with this jury and which are already backfiring.

Lindsay Clancy is presumed innocent of murder. Her children are the reason this question deserves an honest answer.

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Clancy Psychiatrist Admits No Blood Tests Were Run on Her Medication Aug 10, 2026

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No blood tests. That's the detail that stuck out most from today's cross-examination of Dr. Jennifer Tufts, the psychiatrist who treated 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 on January 24, 2023. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation. She's pleaded not guilty, and her defense — led by attorney Kevin Reddington — argues she was in the grip of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.

Reddington walked Tufts through standard suicidal-ideation screening protocols, then noted no bloodwork was ever done to confirm her medications were actually functioning as intended. He also highlighted what he framed as insufficient responses to Clancy's own pleas for help. Tufts testified that she doesn't consider genetic testing particularly useful for guiding psychiatric medication choices, which set up an awkward moment when Reddington asked about a specific article linking postpartum depression to thyroid function — one Tufts admitted she'd never read. She also confirmed discussing a possible undiagnosed bipolar disorder with Clancy, tied to an extreme SSRI reaction, plus a partial hospitalization program that was discussed but never carried out. Even so, Tufts said she didn't believe involuntary hospitalization was the right call at the time.

Prosecutors continue to argue Clancy understood the nature of her actions regardless of her mental state. After the killings, she allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window and is now paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out running errands that day and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court.

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