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Number 1: Lindsay Clancy's Three Verdicts Lead to Three Very Different Lives
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 parole eligibility. Not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility — commitment to a psychiatric facility with no time limit. Every path leads somewhere the audience does not expect. Eric Faddis walks through all three as a defense attorney and former prosecutor. He starts with the deliberation itself — how the burden of proof sits with the prosecution in Massachusetts, how the two-prong legal test works, and what the prosecution's own expert conceded when he acknowledged Clancy had a severe mental illness but drew the line at psychosis. The legal standard says mental disease or defect and does not specify a diagnosis. On the not-guilty path, Faddis explains the commitment process under MGL Chapter 123. The court can order 40 days of observation, then the state petitions for involuntary commitment. There is no cap. Andrea Yates has been committed for twenty years. Periodic review hearings give the state a chance to prove Clancy still meets the standard. Her attorney still has a role. On the guilty path, Clancy leaves Tewksbury Hospital — where she has been since May 2023, paralyzed and on suicide watch — and enters the corrections system. The automatic SJC appeal carries the full trial record, including every piece of mental health evidence the jury rejected. Faddis explains what that review examines and whether the rejected defense has a second life. The jury must be unanimous. If it deadlocks, the judge can issue a last-resort instruction. If that fails, the result is a mistrial. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #JuryDeliberation #NotGuiltyInsanity #LifeWithoutParole #PostpartumPsychosis #CriminalAppeal #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrime
August 29, 202657min
Number 2: Kohberger's Own Evaluation Made THIS Finding About Him
Bryan Kohberger's unsealed neuropsychological evaluation is the most revealing document in the case, and it has nothing to do with the legal fight. Dr. Rachel Lawson Orr spent six sessions over three months documenting behavioral patterns that Kohberger's own family confirmed had been present for years. Restricted facial expression. Absent social smiling. Conversations refocused back onto himself. Impulsive tendencies. Jokes carried past the point of engagement. Orr diagnosed him with eight conditions, including four previously undisclosed: developmental coordination disorder, depression, anorexia nervosa, and opioid use disorder from a teenage heroin addiction. She noted that Kohberger has met the criteria for autism spectrum disorder since childhood. His parents and sisters told Orr they had tried extensive social coaching for years. It hadn't worked. Forum posts attributed to Kohberger at sixteen describe the same pattern in his own words: no emotion, depersonalization, disconnection from his family, and a belief that the condition made him smarter. Orr's central finding ties the portrait together: "overall poor" insight. The clinical term for a man who can't see himself the way everyone else sees him. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #BryanKohberger #Kohberger #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #IdahoMurders #PsychEvaluation #KohbergerPlea #IdahoStudentMurders #MoscowIdaho #CrimePodcast
August 19, 202619min
Number 3: What Patrick Clancy's Remarriage Became Proof Of
Nobody in the Lindsay Clancy courtroom has accused Patrick Clancy of anything. Online, it's a different story entirely. Retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott join Tony Brueski to unpack how a man who testified about burying his own three children became a target for two opposite theories running at the same time. On TikTok, a blood-stain expert's testimony about the windowsill turned into a fully built scenario overnight: Patrick shoving Lindsay through the glass. Photos of his new wife got placed next to old photos of Lindsay, hair and build matched up, and a wedding three years after his children's deaths became evidence of a plan. On a separate front, the case has split almost cleanly by gender. Men on X want maximum punishment for Lindsay and no engagement with the psychosis defense or the thirteen medications from five prescribers. Women online have taken the opposite position, casting Patrick as a narcissist and invoking Chris Watts by name. Patrick told the jury directly that he wasn't married to a monster. Lindsay's own attorney has told the jury she killed her children. Dreeke and Scott trace how a medical symptom got recast as a motive, why remarriage reads as guilt to both camps for opposite reasons, and what it costs a father to be tried by an audience that was never in the courtroom. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #PatrickClancy #LindsayClancy #HiddenKillers #RobinDreeke #ShavaunScott #LindsayClancyTrial #TrueCrime #ConspiracyTheory #GenderWar #Duxbury
August 22, 202638min
Number 4: Lindsay Clancy Trial: Hospital Chaplain Reveals What Clancy Said About Her Kids
Lindsay Clancy, the 34-year-old 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, is now facing testimony from the person who sat with her in the days after. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation. She's pleaded not guilty, and her attorney, Kevin Reddington, is building an insanity defense around severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication. Today it was Shelia Cavanaugh, a chaplain at Brigham and Women's Hospital, on the stand. Cavanaugh testified she first met with Clancy the morning after the killings, January 25, while Clancy was still intubated and surrounded by police and security. A week later, holding Clancy's hands, she heard her say, "I'm so glad my children are safe" — then, later in that same conversation, describe a male voice that had allegedly told her the children would never be safe unless she killed them and herself. Cavanaugh kept visiting weekly after Clancy's transfer to Tewksbury State Hospital, and says the grief hasn't faded. On cross, prosecutors got her to admit she never wrote a word about "hearing voices" in her Brigham notes — even though she documented plenty else, including Clancy's hopes for physical recovery. Clancy allegedly attempted suicide after the killings 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. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Disclaimer This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags #LindsayClancy #DuxburyTragedy #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #PlymouthCounty #CoraDawsonCallan #InsanityDefense #KevinReddington #HiddenKillers #Breaking
August 20, 202621min
Number 5: Lindsay Clancy Trial: Forensic Pathologist Details the Injuries No One's Discussed Yet
Dr. Elizabeth Laposata, a forensic pathologist testifying via Zoom for the defense, walked jurors through some of the most graphic evidence yet 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 bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation. She has pleaded not guilty and is mounting an insanity defense, with attorney Kevin Reddington arguing severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication. Laposata testified she reviewed police reports, grand jury minutes, and medical records from that night. She described knife wounds on Clancy's wrists and neck marked by numerous hesitation cuts — a pattern she said is common in suicide attempts. She also detailed a Jefferson fracture to Clancy's neck and vertebrae, an injury typically caused by a direct hit to the head in a fall or a dive into shallow water, along with spinal cord damage, broken ribs, and injury to the voice box and thyroid. That spinal injury, Laposata testified, also compromised Clancy's ability to regulate her own body temperature. On cross-examination, prosecutors raised lab violations from 20 years ago, which Laposata dismissed as minor — comparing them to something as trivial as a burnt-out light bulb. They also pressed her on a prior case where she'd testified that consciousness is lost within 5 to 10 seconds of strangulation, but that continuous pressure is required for death. On redirect, Laposata drew a distinction: manual strangulation involves varying pressure, but ligature strangulation — the method alleged here — doesn't, and she noted the exercise bands used would have applied constant force. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #LindsayClancy #DuxburyTragedy #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #PlymouthCounty #CoraDawsonCallan #InsanityDefense #KevinReddington #HiddenKillers #Breaking
August 18, 202647min