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Lindsay Clancy Trial: Prosecution's Postpartum Expert Grilled Over Her Own Experience Aug 10, 2026

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Dr. Jennifer Tufts, the psychiatrist who evaluated Lindsay Clancy, spent today's session getting picked apart by defense attorney Kevin Reddington — and it wasn't pretty. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is charged with three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation after prosecutors allege she killed 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's pleaded not guilty, and her legal team, led by Reddington, is arguing severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication left her unable to understand what she was doing.

On the stand, Tufts said she'd trained in postpartum care and had treated up to 50 patients over four years. Reddington zeroed in on a narrower number: in the month before she saw Clancy — while practicing independently for the first time — she'd handled maybe two postpartum depression cases. He also brought up a lawsuit that names Tufts, alleging she misrepresented her postpartum expertise, which is the kind of detail that tends to stick with a jury longer than a resume. From there, Reddington moved into medication — pressing her on side effects, interactions, and what she actually knew about the drugs Clancy was taking. The throughline of his questioning: a communication breakdown between doctor, patient, and the other providers involved in her care.

Prosecutors still maintain Clancy understood the nature of her actions despite the defense's psychiatric claims. 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 at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court.

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Lindsay Clancy Case: Defense Exposes Gaps in Psychiatrist's Postpartum Track Record Aug 10, 2026

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If you're the state's expert witness, the last thing you want is your own resume working against you. That's what happened today in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, when defense attorney Kevin Reddington took psychiatrist Dr. Jennifer Tufts apart on cross. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation after prosecutors allege she strangled 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's pleaded not guilty, with an insanity defense built around severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.

Tufts told the court she'd been trained in postpartum treatment and had seen as many as 50 patients across four years. Reddington countered with the specifics: in the month leading up to Clancy's evaluation — her first stretch practicing solo — she'd seen roughly two postpartum depression patients. He also raised a pending lawsuit accusing Tufts of overstating her postpartum credentials, a detail that undercuts the "trusted expert" framing prosecutors need her to carry. He then pivoted to medication, walking her through side effects and drug interactions and pushing on how much she actually knew about what Clancy was taking, before hammering what he's calling a breakdown in communication among her doctor, her psychiatrist, and everyone else supposedly coordinating her care.

Prosecutors continue to argue Clancy knew what she was doing despite the psychiatric defense. She allegedly attempted suicide after the killings by jumping from a second-story window and remains paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out running errands during the incident and has since relocated to Manhattan. Proceedings continue in Plymouth Superior Court.

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Lindsay Clancy's Condition The Day Before Came Down To Two Words Aug 10, 2026

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A defense attorney refused a sidebar at the Lindsay Clancy trial and accused prosecutors, in open court, of getting caught on a hot mic. What Kevin Reddington says they said, and what the district attorney's office says was actually whispered, opens Day 9 of the most closely watched murder trial in Massachusetts. True Crime Today takes you inside the whole day. The accusation traces to testimony about the autopsy of eight-month-old Callan, when Lindsay Clancy sobbed and was wheeled out as a whisper hit the livestream microphone. The DA's office reviewed the video and says the words were about a courtroom monitor, not the defendant. Judge William Sullivan answered with a blunt warning: microphones are everywhere, and anyone caught commenting is out. Then the day got heavier. Two psychiatrists who treated Clancy before January 24, 2023 testified for the prosecution, and one of them described the day before her children died in exactly two words. The other admitted on cross that she has never treated the illness Clancy's defense is built on. Jurors also heard from the woman who ran the club playroom where Cora and Dawson waited for their mother, and from a friend who asked Lindsay how she was doing at a bonfire two days before the deaths. She answered that she was good. Tony connects the chaos to the substance, and what the fight over three whispered words has to do with the two words that matter most in this courtroom. Cross-examination resumes August 10, and the witness coming back is the doctor who saw her last.

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Alex Murdaugh's Key Evidence Can Never Be Tested Again Aug 10, 2026

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In 2025, a judge threw out the murder indictment against a man named Michael Colucci after finding that evidence which could have helped him was never properly disclosed. That case is connected to David Owen — the same investigator who ran the Alex Murdaugh murder investigation. Sit with that overlap for a second, because Alex Murdaugh's defense team clearly has. Their new motion demands prosecutors go back through every file SLED touched and certify in writing that nothing favorable to Murdaugh is still sitting in a drawer.

On this True Crime Today conversation, Tony Brueski puts the uncomfortable question to retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer: if it happened in the Colucci case, who's checking whether it happened here, besides SLED itself? Coffindaffer spent her career inside federal investigations. She knows what a real evidence audit looks like and what agencies do when one is forced on them. She also knows the difference between a defense attorney who's fishing and one who already knows something is missing.

The Owen question is one thread in a week that moved this case twice. A federal judge dismissed Murdaugh's $600,000 lawsuit against Becky Hill, the former clerk whose jury interference forced the retrial, ruling she owes him nothing because he'd have paid his lawyers regardless. Hill's guilty plea covered a book photo, self-paid bonuses, and lying about sealed exhibits. No prison. Nothing for the tampering. Coffindaffer also works through the fired agent whose testimony cleared Eddie Smith, and the white shirt that tested negative for human blood before a lab chemical made it untestable forever.

Murdaugh is presumed innocent, and his April retrial will settle what a jury believes. This episode settles something else: whether the file that jury gets handed can be trusted.

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Nancy Guthrie's Ransom Wallet Shows THIS After Six Months Aug 10, 2026

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Jennifer Coffindaffer thinks two different people wrote the Nancy Guthrie ransom notes. On this True Crime Today conversation with Tony Brueski, the retired FBI Special Agent makes the case note by note. The first reads like a script: deadlines, threats, she will be killed. The second reads like a person who stood inside that Tucson house and lost their nerve — we never intended to hurt her. One voice organized. One voice sorry. If Coffindaffer is right, the question becomes the man behind the second note: who is he, who hired him, and who is he apologizing to?

There's a colder read on that second note too. Its language about not grasping the seriousness of her physical condition sounds less like remorse and more like a document written for a future jury, in a state that does not hesitate on the death penalty. An apology, or an insurance policy. Coffindaffer takes a side.

The notes aren't the only fresh ground. Coffindaffer traced the alleged kidnapper's Bitcoin wallet after the Pima County Sheriff's Office accidentally published the address in a media release. Her trace shows no ransom was ever paid. The only deposit was roughly three hundred dollars from the FBI in February, untouched since. Messages written directly to the wallet, including the family's own on-camera words about paying, were never answered. A four-million-dollar demand met with total silence.

And six months in, Sheriff Nanos describes the FBI relationship as great while conceding thousands of hours of video remain unreviewed. Coffindaffer, who spent her career inside federal investigations, tells Tony exactly what she makes of that math. Nancy Guthrie deserves better than a case explained by accident. This is the conversation that treats the evidence like it matters.

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Why Lindsay Clancy's Own Witness Undercut The State's Case Aug 10, 2026

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The prosecution in the Lindsay Clancy trial built its case around one number — thirteen medications, all within therapeutic range. Then their own expert stood up and complicated that story in a way nobody on the state's side probably wanted.

Under cross-examination, the prosecution's psychiatrist told the jury that a person can be in active psychosis and still appear calm, functional, and coherent to everyone around her. That single admission cuts against the Commonwealth's entire "she was thinking clearly" theory.

The rest of Day 8 didn't make things simpler for the state. Eleven witnesses took the stand, all called by the prosecution. A medical examiner described how 8-month-old Callan died. Lindsay Clancy broke down at the defense table watching autopsy photos, forcing the judge to pause proceedings. The pediatrician recalled a routine physical with 5-year-old Cora hours before the deaths — nothing unusual, nothing flagged. Friends and coworkers testified about insomnia, brain fog, and a stay at McLean Hospital. Patrick Clancy's father called her a great mother and their home an all-American family.

Then the case detective was pressed on a search warrant executed on her Facebook account, hunting for evidence of abuse in the marriage. He admitted it found nothing.

Clancy's journal entries were read into the record, including a line about feeling like she was drowning. The prosecution calls that premeditation. The defense calls it a documented collapse. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington has already conceded the killings — what's left is whether Massachusetts can prove sanity beyond a reasonable doubt. I break down where the case stands heading into the next phase.

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Could Keffe D's 2008 Interview Set Him Free? Aug 09, 2026

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In 2008, Duane "Keffe D" Davis sat down with the LAPD and gave a detailed account of his alleged role in the murder of Tupac Shakur, in exchange for what he believed was protection from prosecution. That proffer became one of the central pieces of evidence in the case against him, alongside interviews on BET's "Death Row Chronicles" and a 2019 memoir where he wrote about handing his nephew Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson the gun used in the shooting. Judge Carli Kierny has ruled his own statements admissible for trial, and his defense team's argument that the 2008 deal should have protected him from prosecution has already been rejected once. There's no murder weapon in this case. There's no DNA. Anderson denied involvement before he was killed in Compton in 1998, leaving Davis's own words as the backbone of the prosecution's case. After his 2023 arrest, Davis reversed course entirely, telling ABC News he's innocent and that fifteen years of confessions were only ever about selling books. He even claimed he wasn't in Las Vegas that night, contradicting what he'd published himself. Las Vegas police had his 2008 statements on record for years before making an arrest. The gap between what they knew and when they acted stretched to fourteen years. Every motion the defense has filed since the 2023 arrest, immunity, suppression, dismissal over the delay, has failed. Davis is 63, facing life without parole, and the trial is now underway with a jury that has to decide what his own words are actually worth. Mopreme Shakur says the Shakur family has waited thirty years to watch this play out in front of twelve strangers, and he's not the only one who's noticed how long it took to get here.
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Kohberger's Statement Named Everyone Except WHO? Aug 09, 2026

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Bryan Kohberger broke three and a half years of silence with a statement that thanks a lot of people. The public. The state. His own family. The strangers online who believe he's innocent. Four names never show up anywhere in it: Kaylee, Madison, Xana, Ethan.
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott breaks down what that statement is actually doing — an opening that positions Kohberger as the wronged party, the line "my actual innocence is my truth," and a new affidavit accusing his own defense attorneys of telling him guilt wasn't an important factor when he took the plea.
At the same time, his handwritten petition to withdraw that plea has a paper trail of its own. Reporters traced the phrase "broken plea" straight to the title of a true crime book, and "clumps of hair," the detail he leans on hardest, doesn't appear in a single court filing — only in that book. His own defense team previously tried to shut the book down with a cease-and-desist letter. A DNA expert his defense hired had already tested that hair and, according to PEOPLE, found it consistent with Ethan Chapin's own.
Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries and Tony Brueski cover what Kohberger swore to under oath on a nine-page questionnaire before this plea was accepted, and why Steve Goncalves — the father who resisted the deal harder than anyone in that courtroom — now says he wants a trial and the death penalty back on the table. It's the full picture of a case built on a book, an omission, and a father who changed his mind.
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Did Murdaugh's Prosecutors Bury the DNA Evidence? Aug 09, 2026

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Somewhere in a South Carolina evidence locker sits unidentified male DNA pulled from underneath Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails, and the same prosecutors who want to convict Alex Murdaugh of killing her are fighting to keep it away from independent testing. SLED already ran one test, ruled the DNA didn't belong to a Murdaugh, and stopped there. No further work. No attempt to identify whose it was. The defense wants an outside forensic genealogy lab, the one that helped identify Bryan Kohberger in Idaho, to test what remains before it's gone. Prosecutors want SLED to test it again first, with the same method that already came up empty, in a process that could consume the sample before anyone else gets a look. If the state is right that this DNA doesn't matter, letting someone else confirm it costs them nothing. Blocking the test only makes sense if there's a chance it matters quite a bit. The defense says this fits a pattern they've documented throughout the case, including a T-shirt that tested negative for blood it was supposed to have on it, and a blood spatter expert who allegedly changed his conclusions after a visit from the lead investigator. On top of that, a federal judge dismissed Alex Murdaugh's lawsuit against former clerk of court Becky Hill on August 5th, killing the subpoenas and depositions that could have forced her records and sworn testimony into the open before the retrial begins. Two fights, two setbacks for the defense, and a retrial now five months out, with the death penalty on the table and no plea in sight. The judge overseeing the case has already asked prosecutors directly how long outside testing would take, which suggests this argument won't stay buried much longer.
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What Lindsay Clancy's Actions That Morning Prove Aug 09, 2026

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Two people, two very different amounts of help, and one comparison the internet keeps making that doesn't actually hold up. Nick Reiner told reporters he went through somewhere around seventeen rehab stays between age fifteen and twenty-two, all arranged and paid for by his family, plus a yearlong conservatorship. He's now charged with killing his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, and has pleaded not guilty. Lindsay Clancy, a labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General, sought care once, in December of 2022, and was discharged from a postpartum program after a single day.
She's now on trial in Plymouth Superior Court for killing her three children, and this week's testimony didn't make the picture simpler. Patrick Clancy spent two days on the stand. Jurors heard his 911 call. First responders described the scene. Then prosecutors set nine prescription bottles in front of the jury — most of them still holding pills — directly undercutting a defense built around a woman overwhelmed by medication.
Prosecutors also keep returning to a twenty-five-minute errand and a takeout order, asking jurors to weigh whether either one fits with a woman too sick to know what she was doing.
Tony Brueski breaks down why stacking these two cases together as the same story is exactly how neither gets fixed — one person given nearly two decades of intervention, one given a single day, and both families now living with the same unanswerable question about who could have stopped it. Reiner has pleaded not guilty and no motive has been officially confirmed. Clancy's jury has not returned a verdict, and prosecutors argue she acted intentionally and should be held criminally responsible.
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