Week 2 of the Lindsay Clancy triple murder trial begins today after an emotional first week that ended with jurors taking a field trip to the crime scene, the home where Lindsay and Patrick Clancy were raising their three young children. Lindsay did not join the 18 jurors and lawyers who toured both the basement where Lindsay strangled her children and the yard where she jumped from her bedroom’s second story window. The jury returned to court and heard from 5 more witnesses who described the conditions of Lindsay and her children when they arrived at the hospital. The next hurdle for the prosecution, proving Clancy was sane at the time of the murders.

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Happy Sunday everyone, it’s been quite the afternoon for us! We had just gotten back from lunch, in the middle of an afternoon work session, when we received a surprise phone call from our front doorman: Police were in the lobby and wanted to come up and conduct a “welfare check.” T.J. and I had very different reactions, but both of them involved confusion and a healthy dose of fear. We’ll explain what the call was about, how it scarily mimicked a horror movie we were watching the previous day, and why we still aren’t sure if we were targeted or misidentified.

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Why do people become killers? Criminal Minds star Kirsten Vangsness joins Elisa Donovan to explore the psychology behind violent crime, why understanding behavior matters more than simple labels, and what more than 20 years as Penelope Garcia taught her about the darkest parts of the human mind.

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Sara Gilson was an influencer who was dealing with an abusive and unpredictable ex-husband in privacy.
Once she pulled back the curtain and revealed he was a pedophile, things spiraled out of control and left a murder-suicide in its wake. Is this the true danger of social media?

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In a stunning reversal, the DOJ admitted on Friday evening that a rush complete the reflecting pool, and botched work is to blame for the peeling liner in the National Mall’s reflecting pool, NOT a three time U.S. Olympic canoeist. In fact, in its filing, the U.S. Attorney’s office claims it didn’t have all the information from the Department of the Interior before presenting a grand jury with evidence that the damage to the reflecting pool was caused by vandals. So far, there’s been no official comment from the White House.

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Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos released two ransom notes from the person authorities believe kidnapped 83-year-old Nancy Guthrie six months ago. The sheriff released them hoping to keep interest alive in the story and hoping that someone may recognize the distinctive patterns of word choice and phraseology. The two notes are chilling, the first one demanding millions of dollars “or she will be killed,” the second one acknowledging that she died shortly after being abducted. 

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Filmmaker Sophia Maddox joins Killer Thriller Docu to discuss "My Grandfather Charles Manson" and the shocking discovery that one of America's most infamous killers was her grandfather. Sophia shares how the revelation unraveled generations of family secrets, forever changed her relationship with her father, and inspired a deeply personal documentary about identity, generational trauma, healing, and breaking the cycle.

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Today marks exactly 6 months since Nancy Guthrie was last seen alive, after her son-in-law dropped her off at her Tucson home on January 31st.  This, as Sheriff Nanos revealed the hair sample found in Nancy’s home, turned up no identifiable leads. There is just one piece of forensic DNA left to test and Nanos acknowledged technology might not be in place to sort out the mixed DNA in the sample.  Meantime, the man arrested and detained for several hours during the early days of the investigation, is now suing Pima County along with two family members, demanding a total of $3.25 million dollars for their ordeal.

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There are some significant developments in the search for answers in the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells. First, the medical examiner has completed Wells’ autopsy, but the results will not be released until a grand jury reviews the findings along with the rest of the evidence in the case. Second, an arrest has been made following death threats against a local judge whose son was on the boat with Nolan. Meantime, Wells’ family has secured an audio expert to listen to a distress call made by Nolan’s friends about their sinking boat after wild conspiracy theories continue to grow online about what passengers may be saying in the background of the call. 

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The prosecution called 10 first responders to the stand in the triple murder trial of 35-year-old Lindsay Clancy, accused of strangling her three young children to death. One by one, they described the horrific scene they arrived to, complete with what they saw and heard from both Lindsay and the children’s father, Patrick. Today the jury will make a rare field trip to the home where it all happened two years ago, touring the crime scene from the basement to the master bedroom window.

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