True Crime Reality

What’s in a name? Apparently everything to President Trump, who has been changing the names of buildings, mountains and bodies of water. His latest executive order has renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America and one mapping company has refused to follow suit. Mapquest did not follow Google and Apple Maps, and instead tweeted that it would not change the name. That has led to hundreds of thousands of downloads and renewed interest in the 3 decades old company.

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A horrific story out of an affluent Chicago suburb has the country stunned by the similarities between Lindsay Clancy and 38-year-old mother of four, Corie Walshe. Walshe’s older two kids made the unimaginable discovery of their 2-year-old baby brother, Barrett, hanging from the basement rafters after they came home from school. Their mom was in the bathtub, reportedly trying to kill herself.  Hours earlier she had been in a group chat with friends talking about the Lindsay Clancy trial, and police say Walshe told them she killed her toddler because he was the “anti-Christ.” Thankfully an infant was found unharmed in the home, but now Walshe is charged with first degree murder, leaving family, friends and the entire community in shock. 

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Sony Pictures has officially fired longtime announcer Jim Thornton from “Wheel Of Fortune” after photos show Thornton on a known pedophile chatroom while on an American Airlines flight back in May. Now, TMZ has released new photos from the passenger who documented Thornton’s online activities, showing what he did after the flight attendant confronted him and told him to close his laptop. Thornton was looking for advice from AI about being digitally linked to the pedophile chatroom, even suggesting he was panicked. TMZ also identified Thornton’s chatroom handle, which exposes exactly what he was saying on the chatroom while in flight. We want to warn you, the messages are extremely disturbing. Thornton’s attorneys initially offered a flimsy explanation of accidentally clicking a link, but are no longer commenting, following his firing

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Five women. Five Hooters restaurants. Five shocking murders.

Jennifer Fessler sits down with The Hooters Murders: Deadly Shift showrunner Kevin Brennecke to uncover the disturbing connections between the cases and the warning signs that may have been missed. From workplace vulnerabilities to questions of safety and accountability, the documentary explores what happened to these women and why some former Hooters employees are still afraid to speak publicly.

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A one hour delay, turned into a three hour ordeal, that ultimately ended in a mistrial. After a judge from the Massachusetts Supreme Court denied the defense’s last-ditch effort for an emergency stay, Judge Sullivan officially declared a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy triple murder trial. There was no emotion on the faces of Lindsay Clancy, her family, or any of the jurors after the announcement was made, following 40 hours of deliberations and a grueling 5 week trial. There is already a status hearing on the books to prepare for a possible retrial, which the DA has not committed to as of yet, set for the end of the month. 

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The jury came back after nearly 38 hours of deliberations with a note that said “with a heavy heart”  we are unable to come to a unanimous decision. After protest from the defense, Judge Sullivan said he had no choice but to declare a mistrial. But that didn’t stop Kevin Reddington who asked to appeal to a Supreme Court Justice to issue an emergency stay on the ruling, and shockingly, Judge Sullivan gave him one hour. 

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Before jurors began deliberating again this morning, things got heated once again between Lindsay Clancy’s attorney Kevin Reddington and Judge Sullivan. Reddington wanted the holdout juror to be questioned in open court, but the judge ultimately denied his request, saying there was no indication the juror has refused to deliberate or follow the law. Reddington then accused the judge of softly, glossing over his instructions to the jury, and that’s when Sullivan fired back, defending himself. The judge ultimately gave new, slightly more forceful instructions to jurors before sending them back to deliberations.

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It’s anyone’s guess what may happen when court resumes at 9am in the triple murder trial of Lindsay Clancy. We heard from Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, that the judge will first hold an inquiry into the juror identified for refusing to follow the judge’s instructions on reasonable doubt.  Depending on how that goes, jurors are then expected to resume deliberations for the seventh day, up against the timeline of a holiday weekend.

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Robach and Holmes cover the latest news headlines and entertainment updates and give perspective on current events in their daily “Morning Run.”

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After 36 hours of trying to reach a verdict, the jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial will return on Friday for their seventh day of deliberations. But we just heard from defense attorney Kevin Reddington who told reporters there will first be an inquiry into the juror who reportedly refused to follow the judge’s instructions on reasonable doubt. Reddington hope that inquiry will be in open court, after his motion to remove the juror was denied this afternoon.

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