Jared Bridegan’s killer is going to prison. His wife’s trial just got more complicated than anyone expected. Mario Fernandez was convicted of first-degree murder and solicitation for shooting Bridegan in a Jacksonville Beach street in 2021, Read more…
There’s no version of this verdict where Lindsay Clancy walks out of a courtroom and goes home. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis lays out exactly what waits for her down each of the Read more…
Duane “Keffe D” Davis spent decades telling anyone who’d listen exactly what happened the night Tupac Shakur died. This week his own recorded words became the prosecution’s closing argument. This recap covers Wednesday’s and Thursday’s Read more…
Lindsay Clancy was sitting across from her psychiatrist on January 23, 2023, one day before she killed her three children. Jennifer Coffindaffer, 25 years in the FBI and no stranger to the guilty camp, joins Read more…
State Police Sgt. Timothy Chiappini and Cellebrite examiner Ian Whiffin pulled two sets of messages off Lindsay Clancy’s phone, one day apart, and prosecutors and defense attorneys are now building opposite cases out of the Read more…
Public records place Patrick Clancy in Manhattan by May 2023, four months after burying his children, with a new sales job at Microsoft and, according to reporting, solo trips through Latin America and Europe not Read more…
Two days of testimony, one recorded voice, and a story that keeps changing depending on who’s listening. This recap combines Monday’s and Tuesday’s sessions — Day 5 and Day 6 — in the Duane “Keffe Read more…
Patrick Clancy took the stand for the prosecution in his own children’s murder trial and called Lindsay a wonderful, loving mother. Her friends said the same thing. Her coworkers said the same thing. Every single Read more…
Lindsay Clancy’s own defense doesn’t dispute what happened to her three children. The trial is about what was happening inside her mind, and the prosecution just spent fourteen days at Plymouth Superior Court trying to Read more…
Nolan Wells died on Horn Island, Mississippi on July 4, and the sheriff’s office ruled out foul play within two days, before the state autopsy was finished, before anyone official had opened his phone. Seven Read more…
Three witnesses. Under two hours. The defense in the Keffe D murder trial rested on Day 9 — and the witness they built their case around may have done more for the prosecution than the Read more…
This jury has three options on the verdict slip. Guilty of first-degree murder — life without parole, automatic appeal, a transfer from a hospital to a prison. Guilty of second-degree murder — life with eventual Read more…
New felony charges against Fernandez were filed the day after his murder conviction. Both involve crimes against children. Gardner’s trial, set to begin this week, has been pushed to May 2027 after an unopposed defense Read more…
Lindsay Clancy has been at Tewksbury Hospital for over three years. She is paralyzed from the waist down. She has been on 24-hour suicide watch since January 2023. If this jury convicts her of first-degree Read more…
Reddington held up a list of Lindsay Clancy’s prescriptions and started reading. Lorazepam. Sertraline. Hydroxyzine. Lorazepam again. Buspirone. More lorazepam. Trazodone. “It goes on and on and on and on and on.” She took them Read more…
Not guilty does not mean free. If this jury finds Lindsay Clancy not criminally responsible for the deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan, she enters a commitment process governed by Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 123. Read more…
Most people following the Lindsay Clancy trial assume the defense has to prove she was insane. Massachusetts law says the opposite. Once the defense raises mental illness, the prosecution has to prove beyond a reasonable Read more…
Twenty-five witnesses. Eight days. The prosecution in the Keffe D murder trial rested its case on Day 8 — and chose a recorded jail call as the last thing the jury would hear before the Read more…
One trial, three reckonings. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott sits with Tony Brueski for the complete interview on what the verdict coverage leaves out: the prison that waits, the hospital that never lets go, and the husband Read more…
The man the prosecution called the only link between Bridegan and the gunman was convicted in under four hours. Gardner’s jury selection starts August 31 — and the evidence profile is a different case entirely. Read more…
There is no support group for what happened to Patrick Clancy. The research on parents who survive what he survived barely exists, because so few ever have. But one man has — and his road Read more…
Judge William Sullivan ruled on August 26 that Lindsay Clancy’s jury can consider involuntary manslaughter as a lesser included offense — over the prosecution’s objection. The Commonwealth charged Clancy with first-degree murder and fought to Read more…
The state closed its case against Lindsay Clancy this week, and Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague didn’t waste time on subtlety. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is accused of strangling her three children — Cora, Read more…
An hour is a long time to spend telling a jury they’ve been played, but that’s what Kevin Reddington did in closing arguments for Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother charged with strangling her three Read more…
Two mothers. Two psychotic episodes, according to their defenses. Two insanity verdicts — one already delivered, one hanging over a Plymouth County jury room. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to map the road Andrea Read more…
A guilty verdict in the Lindsay Clancy trial sends her somewhere no expert has fully described on camera — until now. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski for the prison episode: what life without parole Read more…
Day 7 ended Mario Fernandez’s murder trial with closing arguments from both sides and a prosecution rebuttal. The defense had called just two witnesses — staff from the Discovery School who described Fernandez and Gardner Read more…
Every segment of this episode has one comment that turned out to be true, and in each case it hurt the person who posted it. The Patrick-did-it crowd said a nurse would never search for Read more…
The prosecution spent Day 7 connecting a gang title to a murder charge. A retired Compton Police Department detective took the stand and told the jury exactly where Duane “Keffe D” Davis sat in the Read more…
An FBI profiler thinks Lindsay Clancy is a psychopath who was sick of her kids. That’s how one commenter puts it, citing Pat Brown, with Matt Walsh as a second vote. The commenter rejects both Read more…