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When Patrick Clancy came home on January 24th, 2023, his wife was in the backyard, seriously injured. She told him she had tried to kill herself. He asked where the children were. She said the basement. What he found down those stairs broke every assumption anyone had about this story.

Five days later, Patrick asked the world to forgive Lindsay. As he already had.

Lindsay Clancy was a Duxbury, Massachusetts mother of three and a labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital. After the birth of her youngest child, she spent months fighting for her mental health — seeing psychiatrists, visiting ERs, calling crisis lines, checking herself into McLean Hospital. Her husband called her doctors himself and said it was urgent. They were told to keep taking the medications. By January 2023, the defense says she had thirteen different prescriptions from multiple providers in four months with no meaningful coordination between them. The day before everything happened, her doctor raised her dose after a seventeen-minute virtual call.

Prosecutors say she planned the murders. That she searched methods of killing. That she calculated her husband's absence and acted with premeditation. That argument goes before a jury on July 20th, 2026.

Lindsay has pleaded not guilty. Her defense is lack of criminal responsibility — postpartum psychosis. The prosecution's psychiatric evaluation is set for April 10th. Her attorney has told the court she remains at serious risk of suicide.

Patrick has moved to Manhattan. He told The New Yorker he was married to someone who got sick — and prosecutors have subpoenaed the tape.

Hidden Killers tells the full story. The one nobody is telling completely.

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After three days of other people telling the story of what happened in that bedroom, Kelsey Fitzsimmons sat down and told it herself. She said she watched her baby, her fiancé, her house, her badge disappear in minutes. Saw a two-second window. Grabbed the gun, put it to her head, and pulled the trigger. When nothing happened, she pulled it again. Then she was on the ground.

In the ambulance: "I'm a f---ing idiot. I just tried to kill myself with an unloaded gun." On the oxygen mask: she kept pulling it off. She still wanted to die. Five surgeries. Fifty-three days in the hospital. And on the stand: "I never pointed the gun at a fellow police officer. It never happened."

Noonan says she pointed it at him. His own neighbor took the stand and testified he called Fitzsimmons a "f---ing whackjob" and that she walked away from their conversation asking why nobody brought a social worker. Fitzsimmons's mother heard two shots from downstairs and never heard her daughter say a word.

Both sides rested. The site visit the defense fought two days to get approved was quietly cancelled after Fitzsimmons testified. Closing arguments are next.

But here's what this episode is really about. At least one officer walked into that house knowing Fitzsimmons had been involuntarily committed for postpartum depression. There was still no mental health professional anywhere near that call. Not because anyone was negligent. Because the system was never built to put one there — even when you know walking in that the person upstairs has already been to the edge once.

That gap is what put everyone in danger. And no verdict is going to address it.

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One Duggar brother is in federal prison. Another was arrested this week on charges he allegedly admitted to twice. Their father has known about abuse inside his family since 2002 and has faced zero legal consequences. A federal judge has already put his finding about Jim Bob's sworn testimony on the public record: not credible.

In Part 2 of Hidden Killers' three-part interview series, hosts Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke sit down with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott — thirty years working with perpetrators of violence across forensic mental health programs, domestic violence settings, and private practice — to examine the psychology of the men at the center of this story.

What does Josh Duggar's pattern look like to a clinician who has spent decades in this work? What does Joseph's alleged admission — and his apparent apology to the girl at the time — tell us about how he processed what he did? What is Jim Bob doing when he chooses church over law enforcement, twice, across two decades, and then claims he can't remember any of it under oath?

What does the research actually show about what happens to offenders who receive faith-based handling instead of clinical treatment? And what does the complete absence of real consequences do to someone who has harmed others?

This is Part 2 of 3.

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Two Duggar brothers are now facing criminal charges involving children. A third is in federal prison. Understanding how one family keeps producing these outcomes requires understanding the organization that shaped them.

In Part 1 of this three-part interview series, Hidden Killers hosts Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke sit down with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott to examine the Institute in Basic Life Principles from the inside out. Scott brings something rare to this conversation: thirty years of clinical experience working with trauma survivors and perpetrators of violence — combined with her own personal history inside fundamentalist Christianity, documented in her memoir Nightbird.

IBLP's doctrine gave fathers absolute authority. Their own published materials described leaving paternal authority as witchcraft, fear of dying in pregnancy as satanic, and rock music as more addictive than crack cocaine. Their homeschool program deliberately excluded sex education — leaving generations of children without the tools to identify, name, or report abuse.

This conversation examines how a system like that gets built, how it maintains control, and what it produces in the people who live inside it. The Duggars aren't the story. They're the symptom. This is the disease.

This is Part 1 of 3.

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Hidden Killers presents Part Three of The Shape of Him — an examination of everyone who felt something wrong around Bryan Kohberger, had nowhere to take it, and is still carrying that experience.

The accounts across his life share a quality: not specific incidents, but a persistent texture of wrongness. A delivery driver. Graduate students. Classmates. People who created distance without being able to say exactly why, who mentioned their discomfort to someone and watched the conversation end there, because the conversation had nowhere to go.

Tony Brueski examines what that feeling actually is — the neuroscience behind social threat detection, why it's real, and why it's also imprecise enough that it cannot and should not function as evidence. Then he walks through what every system Kohberger moved through actually required before it could act — and why, at every level, a feeling without a documented incident wasn't enough to cross the threshold.

The most honest part of this episode is the acknowledgment that the systems that didn't flag Kohberger are the same systems that protect everyone. That tension doesn't resolve cleanly. It isn't supposed to.

For anyone carrying guilt about a feeling they had and couldn't act on. For anyone who works inside a system and has hit its wall. This is the episode that speaks to both. Part three of five.

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An alleged confession on a recorded call. A bench trial turning on which direction a gun was pointed. A June 22nd trial date for a man who killed a documented predator the court had already set free. Three active cases — and in every one of them, the legal picture is more complicated than the headlines suggest.

Joseph Duggar's defense is starting from a position that most defense attorneys would describe as severely compromised: two reported pre-representation statements, one of which was made to law enforcement and reportedly recorded. He's headed to Florida on felony child sex abuse charges while his wife faces her own counts in Arkansas. The investigation that produced those Arkansas charges was opened because of the Florida case — but police are describing them as legally distinct. The defense has to figure out what to do with all of that simultaneously.

Kelsey Fitzsimmons is in a Massachusetts bench trial on one count of assault with a dangerous weapon. The grand jury declined to return the more serious charge. Martha Coakley is on the defense team. The entire case comes down to whether a judge believes the gun was at her colleague's face or her own head — and whether the phrase a witness said in that moment means what the defense says it means.

Aaron Spencer is 90 days from trial. The prosecution says the public's understanding of this case is incomplete. The child at the center of it may have to testify. And the 40 counts of child sexual abuse against the man Spencer is accused of killing will not be part of the proceeding — legally, they don't exist in that courtroom.

Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta, retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke, and host Tony Brueski examine all three cases with the depth they demand.

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Kelsey Fitzsimmons takes center stage in the Kelsey Fitzsimmons trial.

Kelsey Fitzsimmons, a 29-year-old North Andover police officer, stands accused of assault with a dangerous weapon — charged with pointing her service weapon at a fellow officer inside her own home. What prosecutors describe as a calculated attempt to shoot Officer Patrick Noonan, the defense calls a mental health crisis: a woman suffering from severe postpartum depression who turned the gun on herself, not on him.

This is gavel-to-gavel coverage of one of the most polarizing trials in Massachusetts in recent memory. A police officer. A restraining order served by colleagues. A four-month-old baby in the home. And two completely opposite stories about what happened in that upstairs bedroom — with only a failed trigger pull standing between the truth and a tragedy far worse.

Hidden Killers brings you complete trial coverage with expert analysis — no sensationalism, just the facts as they unfold.

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Bexley Bridegan was two years old and in the backseat when her father was murdered. The twins — Jared's daughters with Shanna Gardner — grew up allegedly inside the household of the people who arranged his death. And after the arrests, the court granted full guardianship of the twins to Gardner's parents. The children went to the family of the woman accused of killing their father.

The system, working as designed.

Part 3 of One Mile From Home is the episode dedicated entirely to the children in this case — what they witnessed, what they carried, and what the research on childhood trauma and high-conflict custody tells us about the cost they will spend their lives paying.

Tony Brueski examines parentification and loyalty conflict — the specific psychological damage inflicted on children who are consciously or unconsciously recruited into adult conflict. The child who learns to read a parent's mood before they can read a book. Who knows which names are safe to say. Who builds two versions of themselves for two households because being whole in either one feels like a risk.

This is not "divorce is hard on kids." This is a precise, research-grounded examination of what sustained conflict does developmentally — and what these specific children, in this specific case, will be integrating for the rest of their lives.

Hidden Killers. No flinching.

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Lauren Page, Kelsey's mother, takes center stage in the Kelsey Fitzsimmons trial.

Kelsey Fitzsimmons, a 29-year-old North Andover police officer, stands accused of assault with a dangerous weapon — charged with pointing her service weapon at a fellow officer inside her own home. What prosecutors describe as a calculated attempt to shoot Officer Patrick Noonan, the defense calls a mental health crisis: a woman suffering from severe postpartum depression who turned the gun on herself, not on him.

This is gavel-to-gavel coverage of one of the most polarizing trials in Massachusetts in recent memory. A police officer. A restraining order served by colleagues. A four-month-old baby in the home. And two completely opposite stories about what happened in that upstairs bedroom — with only a failed trigger pull standing between the truth and a tragedy far worse.

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Michael Fosler was facing 40 counts of child sexual abuse when a judge released him on bond. He never faced a jury. Aaron Spencer is accused of ending that possibility — and on June 22nd, Spencer is the one who walks into court. The case has drawn national attention, produced a judge removal, influenced a primary election, and prompted the prosecution to tell reporters publicly that the public's understanding of what happened is incorrect.

On Hidden Killers, criminal defense attorney Bob Motta, retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke, and host Tony Brueski examine where the Spencer case actually stands and what the next 90 days mean for the outcome.

Bob Motta breaks down the legal framework the defense must navigate: the specific elements of Arkansas self-defense and defense-of-others statutes, the thresholds that have to be met, and the points where cases like this most commonly fall apart. He examines whether Fosler's 40 pending charges carry any legal weight inside the Spencer trial or whether the law treats them as though they never existed. He also addresses what the prosecution's pre-trial public statements signal strategically — and whether Spencer's own media appearances, including a CNN interview, create a liability his defense team now has to manage.

Robin Dreeke examines the behavioral dimensions: what happens when public narrative hardens around a defendant before a jury is seated, and how the emotional architecture of this case — father, predator, institutional failure — affects the behavioral reality of that courtroom.

The victim may be called to testify. The counts against Fosler are gone. The system that released him will not be on trial — but it will be in the room. Hidden Killers examines all of it.

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