Judge Debra McCaslin just moved Alex Murdaugh's murder retrial to Sumter County — a location the defense never requested and the prosecution never suggested. The defense had pushed hard for Charleston, even offering to permanently waive all venue appeals if McCaslin gave them their preferred city. She didn't. The prosecution opposed Charleston on cost and logistics but never fought for a specific alternative. McCaslin made the call herself. Her eight-page order lays out why the trial had to leave Colleton County entirely. The Murdaugh family held the prosecutor's seat in the 14th Circuit for eighty-six consecutive years. That dynastic control contaminated the jury pool beyond repair. Becky Hill's conviction for jury tampering, obstruction, and perjury made the courthouse itself a liability. During the original 2023 trial, fewer than one in seven prospective jurors qualified to serve, and McCaslin says that number would be worse now. Sumter County sits in a completely different judicial circuit with roughly three times the population. The retrial is April 5, 2027, with McCaslin personally running jury selection. The defense's failed push for Charleston has a consequence: without their preferred venue, the promise to waive appeals is off the table. If this retrial ends in a conviction, venue stays a live issue all the way to the state Supreme Court.

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Patrick Clancy testified against his former wife once. His attorney has now said what a second trial would mean for him, and the district attorney has to decide whether to ask. Eric Faddis, defense attorney and former prosecutor, joins True Crime Today to explain how much a surviving father's wishes count.

Lindsay Clancy's trial ended in a mistrial September 4, 2026, after 38 hours of deliberation. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington says the jury was 11-1 for acquittal. That same day, Patrick's attorney released a statement saying the prospect of a second trial is extraordinarily painful for him and that his focus is preserving the memory of Cora, Dawson, and Callan. DA Tim Cruz said the facts are that Lindsay Clancy killed her three children and that the evidence suggested she was in control of her actions. He called it the cruel and calculated killing of three innocents. He has not decided whether to retry her.

The first-degree murder case was built on a January 24, 2023 timeline: an Apple Maps search for a Plymouth restaurant at 4:13 p.m., a takeout order at 5:10 p.m., and Patrick leaving to pick it up at 5:54 p.m. Prosecutors argued she was getting him out of the house. The defense argued postpartum psychosis and did not dispute that she caused the deaths.

Eric explains how a prosecutor's office reviews a case after eleven jurors lean the other way. Whether the top charge was a trap. How failed expert testimony gets rebuilt. Where an elected DA's political math comes in. And whether a father asking to be spared can move a triple-homicide prosecution.

Lindsay Clancy is charged with three counts of first-degree murder. She is held at Tewksbury Hospital. Both sides return to court September 29.

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Donna Adelson allegedly offered Dan Markel a million dollars to let her daughter relocate with his children. When he refused, prosecutors say she helped arrange his murder — paid through the family dental office, 44 checks she signed to a woman who never worked there, $138,000 in documented payments, cash she allegedly washed before handing it off. The killers drove from Miami in a rental car that left a toll transponder receipt on every mile.Five people are serving time for the FSU law professor's murder. Charlie Adelson took the stand and told a jury he was being extorted by the hitmen — a $3,000 monthly layaway plan through the dental practice. The jury took three hours. Donna tried to board a one-way flight to Vietnam a week after Charlie's conviction, confessed to a jailhouse informant, wrote a handwritten script to buy false testimony, and told the sentencing judge she'd never had a parking ticket.This is the full Adelson conspiracy told start to finish — from the custody ruling the family couldn't accept, to the Dolce Vita tape, to what Wendi Adelson's ex-boyfriend says she told him five days before Dan was shot. Five convicted. Two still uncharged. The investigation is technically open. The children live in South Florida. Their last name is Adelson.

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Kevin Reddington asked President Trump for a pardon on national television, and a pardon is the one thing Trump cannot give him. Eric Faddis, defense attorney and former prosecutor, joins True Crime Today to explain what the request is actually for.

Lindsay Clancy's trial ended in a mistrial on September 4, 2026, after the jury deliberated 38 hours across seven days. Reddington says the split was 11-1 in favor of acquittal. On Good Morning America he asked the president to "consider this young lady and the person she is, what she's been through, and consider a pardon." Presidents can only pardon federal crimes. Reddington then described Plymouth County DA Tim Cruz as a hard-charging, conservative prosecutor and said he hoped Cruz would reconsider after seeing the evidence.

Reddington has also ruled out any plea with jail time, saying he would not plead Lindsay Clancy to a single day because she was sick. A Rule 25 motion for a required finding of not guilty, asking the judge to end the case for lack of evidence, is set for September 29.

Eric explains how a televised plea to a president becomes pressure on a county prosecutor. He weighs whether a public no-jail ultimatum is a bluff or a demand the jury split supports. He describes what a defense team says to prosecutors after a near-acquittal. He explains why a motion judges rarely grant still has a purpose. And he walks through how a deal gets built around psychiatric care instead of prison, with no admission of guilt.

Lindsay Clancy is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the January 24, 2023 deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan. She is held at Tewksbury Hospital while the DA decides whether to retry her.

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Patrick Clancy's attorney says the accounts accusing him in his children's deaths are about to answer for it, and one line in his statement tells you how serious this is. Eric Faddis, defense attorney and former prosecutor, joins True Crime Today to explain the legal road from an online post to a courtroom.

The statement from attorney Howard Cooper came out September 8, 2026. It describes months of a "relentless, escalating and destructive defamation campaign" against Patrick and his family, built on what the statement calls outright falsehoods. It says the people responsible appear intent on boosting their own social media profiles. It promises that every appropriate measure will be pursued to hold them accountable, including legally. And it says law enforcement has been notified.

Eric explains how lawyers identify an anonymous poster, and why the platform usually ends up handing over the name. He explains why "in my opinion" is not the shield most creators think it is. He describes what discovery looks like for an influencer, including private messages and the money the posts earned. He explains where civil defamation ends and criminal harassment or stalking begins. And he answers whether a few high-profile lawsuits could change how creators cover the families in these cases.

Patrick Clancy was the prosecution's first witness at the trial of his former wife. Lindsay Clancy was charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the January 24, 2023 deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan. The jury could not agree after 38 hours of deliberation. DA Tim Cruz has not said whether he will retry the case. Both sides are due back in court September 29.

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Matthew Farwell's federal murder trial begins October 5 in Boston, and the defense is preparing to put Sandra Birchmore's life on trial. Their argument: she was unstable, manipulative, a liar, and she killed herself. The prosecution's answer: every one of those traits was created by the men who exploited her since she was twelve years old.Sandra joined the Stoughton Police Explorers as a kid looking for positive male role models. Prosecutors allege Farwell began a relationship with her when she was fifteen and he was a twenty-seven-year-old officer. Three other men connected to the department were also involved. None faced criminal charges. The only arrest came three years after Sandra was found dead with a duffel bag strap tied around her neck in her Canton apartment.Farwell's DNA was the major contributor on that strap. A fracture in Sandra's hyoid bone had zero documented parallels in women found seated. She had abrasions on her nose, hemorrhage in a neck muscle, and a broken necklace on the floor. The scene was declared a suicide before the autopsy. A state trooper extracted Farwell's phone and found zero messages between him and Sandra. The FBI later recovered 32,709 of them.Sandra planned to announce her pregnancy on Valentine's Day. Farwell attended a training where the medical examiner discussed how to identify suicide in hanging deaths. The defense will show the jury Sandra's pain. The prosecution will show them who caused it.

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The Lindsay Clancy trial went to a jury that deliberated for thirty-eight hours across seven days and couldn't agree. Judge Sullivan declared a mistrial September 4 after the jury reported being hopelessly deadlocked at eleven to one.

Outside the courtroom, the conspiracy was already running. TikTok and Instagram creators built an alternate case against Patrick Clancy — the man who testified as the prosecution's first witness and whose ex-wife admitted through her defense that she killed their three children. Some used astrology. Others used trial footage. The theories grew through the trial and intensified after the mistrial.

A man posted a TikTok saying he ended a $200,000 wedding because his fiancée expressed sympathy for Lindsay. He called her a monster. Four million people watched.

On September 8, Patrick's attorney Howard Cooper called it a defamation campaign, confirmed law enforcement has been notified, and warned that consequences are coming. Lindsay's own attorney Kevin Reddington praised the conspiracy theorists' investigative ability after the mistrial.

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines the full picture with Tony Brueski — the relationships cracking, the father accused, and why the country can't sit with uncertainty when three children are dead.

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Sources say medical professionals warned Rob and Michele Reiner not to let their son Nick stay in the home after a medication switch weeks before the killings. A second source confirmed doctors told the parents the change could trigger more erratic behavior. They let him stay. They’d been letting him stay for years — through the meth benders, the destroyed guest house, the threats against his sister, the stolen money, the 18 rehab stays he’d cycled through since he was 15. Nick Reiner was diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent a year under a court-ordered conservatorship for grave disability. That oversight ended in 2021 and was never renewed. Four years later, a grand jury indicted him on two counts of murder with a lying-in-wait special circumstance — an allegation that he concealed his purpose, watched and waited, and attacked his parents inside their Brentwood bedroom with the specific intent to kill. The night before, his parents had brought him to a holiday party to keep an eye on him. One guest said he was freaking everyone out. He argued loudly with his father and was asked to leave. Tony walks through the medical warnings, the behavioral record, and the lying-in-wait charge — then puts the case alongside Lindsay Clancy’s, where a mother chased her doctors for help and the system couldn’t get there in time. Nick Reiner has pleaded not guilty. Held without bail. Next hearing September 15.

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The Lindsay Clancy trial presented two readings of the same set of facts. The prosecution said she acted deliberately and understood what she was doing. The defense said postpartum psychosis hijacked her brain and she was incapable of appreciating the wrongfulness of her actions. The jury deliberated for thirty-eight hours and couldn't agree.

The public is having the same argument with less information and more certainty. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott says the fury, the side-taking, and the demand for a clean answer all trace back to a biological truth most people are unwilling to confront: severe postpartum psychosis is a real medical event that can happen to a person with no history of violence.

Scott explains what the word "monster" does psychologically when applied to a case like this — and who it's actually protecting. Why the public distinguishes between a heart attack causing a fatal car crash and a brain illness causing a catastrophe. What it means when mothers watching the trial recognize something in Lindsay's story they've carried in silence.

And the clinical bottom line: when the loudest public message is that compassion for a mentally ill mother makes you dangerous, the next mother in crisis gets the message too.

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Three weeks before the murder, Wendi Adelson called Dan Markel an "STD" and an "emotional terrorist." Five days before, her boyfriend Jeffrey Lacasse says she told him her brother Charlie had looked into every option for dealing with the "Danny problem" — including hiring a hitman for fifteen thousand dollars. Lacasse called the statement "chilling." Wendi denied saying it under oath at four separate trials.The day before the killing, she asked Lacasse about his Friday travel route past Dan's house, then emailed him not to contact her for a week. The morning of July 18, 2014, she was home waiting for a Geek Squad technician to fix a TV that prosecutors say was code for the murder plan. An hour later, she drove past police tape at Dan's house, knowing her children were there, and didn't call anyone.Two weeks after the murder, Lacasse testified that Wendi told him she and Charlie went to what Charlie described as a "celebration dinner." Wendi denied that too. Five people are in prison. Wendi Adelson has never been charged. This is the fourth installment of the Adelson series — the story of the ex-wife, the boyfriend, and the questions that remain.

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