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Politicians typically are THE most loved when they’re dead.
That’s not a threat.

Something about no longer wielding power makes them more lovable. And obituaries typically omit the bad stuff.

Which brings us to Lee Hong-koo, South Korea’s former prime minister, who held office when the Sampoong Department Store collapsed, a case we covered.

His legacy spans decades. But now, netizens speculate that his grandson could become better known than him.

They believe Winston Lee, one of the accused in the Cornell 7 case, is his grandson. That connection remains unconfirmed. But if true, Lee comes from one of South Korea’s most prominent families.

And he’s lawyered up. His lawyers want New York’s Attorney General off the case.

This is the final part of the Cornell 7 case.

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Senior Night at a high school football game is a very big deal. It’s kind of like the Oscars and a State of the Union coming together for one night. There are tears, balloon arches, and slow-motion football videos, with a coach trying his best to sound like Morgan Freeman.

But at Timberline High School in Boise, Idaho, the spotlight has shifted from football to protests, police involvement, and student walkouts. Homecoming festivities, including the game, were canceled after a Snapchat group chat allegedly involving football players went viral.

The messages allegedly discussed how they were going to r*pe and kill a female student. “Let’s make her life hell.” “Hell yeah.”

Then came a chilling reference: “You think Cornell was bad? Just wait for us.”

This is part 2 of the Cornell 7 case.

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Senior Night at a high school football game is a very big deal. It’s kind of like the Oscars and a State of the Union coming together for one night. There are tears, balloon arches, and slow-motion football videos, with a coach trying his best to sound like Morgan Freeman.

But at Timberline High School in Boise, Idaho, the spotlight has shifted from football to protests, police involvement, and student walkouts. Homecoming festivities, including the game, were canceled after a Snapchat group chat allegedly involving football players went viral.

The messages allegedly discussed how they were going to r*pe and kill a female student. “Let’s make her life hell.” “Hell yeah.”

Then came a chilling reference: “You think Cornell was bad? Just wait for us.”

This is part 2 of the Cornell 7 case.

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There aren’t many reasons why a pedestrian gets hit by a car ends up being at fault. But at Cornell, a student whose foot was allegedly run over by university president Michael Kotlikoff’s car was banned from campus for a year.

A few months later, Cornell faces another scandal. Jane Doe files a civil lawsuit against the university and seven fraternity brothers, alleging she was gang raped for seven hours. Her dream university becomes a nightmare, while some of the accused allegedly receive punishments like workshops and essays.

Now, Snapchats, text messages and recorded phone calls are emerging. One accused says he was assaulted by Jane Doe, not the other way around. Some people have already picked sides. But like most cases, maybe it’s not so simple.

This is the case of the Cornell 7.

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There aren’t many reasons why a pedestrian gets hit by a car ends up being at fault. But at Cornell, a student whose foot was allegedly run over by university president Michael Kotlikoff’s car was banned from campus for a year.

A few months later, Cornell faces another scandal. Jane Doe files a civil lawsuit against the university and seven fraternity brothers, alleging she was gang raped for seven hours. Her dream university becomes a nightmare, while some of the accused allegedly receive punishments like workshops and essays.

Now, Snapchats, text messages and recorded phone calls are emerging. One accused says he was assaulted by Jane Doe, not the other way around. Some people have already picked sides. But like most cases, maybe it’s not so simple.

This is the case of the Cornell 7.

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After months of online speculation, conspiracy theories, and a formal statement about defamation from his attorney, Patrick Clancy sits down with CBS 60 Minutes. Accompanying him - is his new and pregnant wife, Rachel Danis.   

We break down every moment of the interview: the ‘Rom Com’ line, body language, netizen thoughts, and the responses that left the internet with more questions than answers.

Did the interview accomplish what they came to do? Depends on who you ask.

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Eight months after the Clancy children were killed, Patrick Clancy has a new city, a new life, and the internet has a whole new list of questions. Who is Rachel Danis, and when exactly did she enter the picture?

From a blurry Barry's Bootcamp photo to a coincidence in trips to Costa Rica, netizens have been pulling at every thread.

These are all the rumors, the timelines, and the online theories surrounding Patrick's move to NYC, the mistress allegations, and the woman some say looks a little too familiar.

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If you ever feel the urge to occupy yourself entirely with learning about the directionality of stroller wheels, is it an all-wheel-drive baby stroller? There’s dense literature on Reddit parenting forums. You’ll come out more educated on strollers, and equally confused about which one to buy.

But that’s surface-level content. It gets much deeper.

You might stumble on posts asking whether it’s normal to hear cries that aren’t really there in the middle of the night: phantom cries.

They used to call it “insanity of lactation.” Now it’s postpartum psychosis, a rare, severe condition distinct from postpartum depression. Postpartum depression is more common, affecting about one in eight people who give birth. Postpartum psychosis affects roughly one to two per 1,000 births.

Depression can mean persistent sadness, anxiety, and exhaustion. Psychosis can involve hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized behavior, and it can be intermittent, hidden behind long lucid periods.

That distinction has become central to the question surrounding Lindsay Clancy: did she have postpartum psychosis, or didn’t she?

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If you ever feel the urge to occupy yourself entirely with learning about the directionality of stroller wheels, is it an all-wheel-drive baby stroller? There’s dense literature on Reddit parenting forums. You’ll come out more educated on strollers, and equally confused about which one to buy.

But that’s surface-level content. It gets much deeper.

You might stumble on posts asking whether it’s normal to hear cries that aren’t really there in the middle of the night: phantom cries.

They used to call it “insanity of lactation.” Now it’s postpartum psychosis, a rare, severe condition distinct from postpartum depression. Postpartum depression is more common, affecting about one in eight people who give birth. Postpartum psychosis affects roughly one to two per 1,000 births.

Depression can mean persistent sadness, anxiety, and exhaustion. Psychosis can involve hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized behavior, and it can be intermittent, hidden behind long lucid periods.

That distinction has become central to the question surrounding Lindsay Clancy: did she have postpartum psychosis, or didn’t she?

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A jury room is supposed to be where a case finally comes together. Instead, it can become a pressure cooker: strangers locked in a cramped space, arguing over evidence, sending desperate notes to the judge, and trying to reach a decision that could change someone’s life forever.

That pressure is at the center of the Lindsay Clancy trial. After hearing the evidence, the jury reportedly remained deadlocked 11–1, leading to a mistrial and leaving the public with more questions than answers.

What evidence divided the room so completely? What made one juror refuse to budge? And what happens if the case goes to trial again?

But the conversation did not stay inside the courthouse. Online, the case has sparked an entirely separate investigation: arguments over guilt vs. insanity, scrutiny of the people involved, theories about Patrick, discussion of the viral Bratz doll video, and crowdsourced searches through records, family ties, and perceived inconsistencies.

In Part 1 of this multipart series, we unpack the courtroom tension, the deadlocked jury, and the internet theories shaping the public narrative around the Lindsay Clancy case.

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