Three first responders 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 Read more…
The prosecution put Patrick Clancy on the stand first in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, and across two days at Plymouth Superior Court, they got something they probably didn’t want. A portrait of a medical Read more…
Three Duxbury Fire Department first responders 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 Read more…
Two of the first responders to reach the Clancy home took the stand today, and together they gave the jury its clearest picture yet of what happened inside that house on January 24, 2023. Officers Read more…
Bryan Kohberger waited a year to speak about the Idaho student murders, and then chose the seventy-two hours before a Netflix documentary about the case went live. The timing is the story. Tony Brueski and Read more…
A year after Bryan Kohberger admitted to the University of Idaho murders in open court, he wants the whole thing thrown out, and the way he says so is stranger than the fact that he Read more…
There is a bag sitting in evidence at the Lindsay Clancy trial that both lawyers are going to reach for, and it holds nine prescription bottles that are almost completely full. That bag went into Read more…
Part two of Patrick Clancy’s cross-examination continued today in the murder trial of his wife, Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother accused of strangling their three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan Read more…
One episode, two cases, and the same question running through both. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke, who led the FBI’s Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, cover the Lindsay Clancy trial openings and Bryan Kohberger’s move to Read more…
Patrick Clancy, husband of Lindsay Clancy, returned to the stand today in the murder trial of the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother accused of strangling their three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — Read more…
Calling the Nolan Wells investigation a blackout runs into an inconvenient problem: a blackout produces nothing, and this case has produced a paper trail anybody can go read. That is where this episode starts, and Read more…
He answered yes when a judge asked if he was guilty. Now Bryan Kohberger says he was talked into it. About a year after his sentencing on four consecutive life terms, Kohberger filed a handwritten Read more…
Two witnesses with nothing in common except the same case 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 Read more…
Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to four murders in open court, out loud, four separate times. Now he is trying to take all of it back. So can he actually do that? That is the question, Read more…
Patrick Clancy took the stand today in the murder trial of his wife, Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother accused of strangling their three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with Read more…
A woman admitted for thoughts about harming her children told a hospital those thoughts were gone. The hospital let her go home. Patrick Clancy took his wife to Massachusetts General on New Year’s Eve 2022 Read more…
“She was having one of her best days.” That is how Patrick Clancy described January 24, 2023 to the jury deciding whether his ex-wife is criminally responsible for the deaths of their three children. He Read more…
There was one thing David Anthony Burke wanted to know about Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s pregnancy, and a detective read his exact words to a Los Angeles courtroom. That is where the d4vd preliminary hearing arrived Read more…
The connection between these two cases is not the crime. It is the signature. Ohio put a marriage license in front of a judge for a fifteen-year-old who was seven months pregnant, and it was Read more…
The Nolan Wells 911 call opens with the strangest soundtrack imaginable: cheerful hold music playing over the commotion of a boat taking on water. Tony plays the uncut audio from start to finish and examines Read more…
Ohio’s attorney general did not hedge. Sixteen children were taken out of a home on Ohmer Street in Hamden, and Andy Wilson did not soften what came next. Based on what he had seen, he Read more…
The prosecution’s opening statement at Plymouth Superior Court used one adjective for part of what Lindsay Clancy did to herself: superficial. Kevin Reddington answered it with photographs, a fracture list, and a medical record that Read more…
The most devastating number in this case is not a dollar figure and it is not a piece of forensic evidence. It is how old Celeste Rivas Hernandez was when prosecutors say David Burke first Read more…
A woman in a psychiatric crisis drove herself to a locked ward on New Year’s Eve and checked herself in voluntarily. The malpractice complaint filed against her providers says she was not seen by a Read more…
Testimony placed David Burke’s phone and his Tesla off Highway 154 in Santa Barbara County in the small hours after prosecutors say Celeste Rivas Hernandez died. While he was out there, according to an LAPD Read more…
Kouri Richins filed a motion for a new trial. Seven weeks after a judge sentenced her to life without parole for the aggravated murder of her husband Eric Richins. Seven weeks after her own sons Read more…
Three families asked the system for something basic. Answers. Protection. Help. None of them received it. Nolan Wells was eighteen. He went to a boat party on Horn Island, Mississippi, and was the only one Read more…
Pool fragments on a dead girl’s leggings. That’s the evidence that came out of Day 3 of the d4vd preliminary hearing in Los Angeles, and it draws a direct forensic line between the Hollywood Hills Read more…
Patrick Clancy, husband of Lindsay Clancy, took the stand today in the murder trial of the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with Read more…
Lindsay Clancy was intubated in a hospital bed. Her three children were dead. She could not speak. She was handed an erasable whiteboard. And the first thing she communicated was a question that both sides Read more…