Josh Duggar Blames THIS For His 2015 Confession

Is Lindsay Clancy A Monster Or A Patient?

The Lindsay Clancy case forces the audience to sit with a question most people would rather not ask — can a mother who killed her three children also be someone the medical system destroyed? Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott talks through the answer with Tony Brueski. The public split is not about evidence. Everyone agrees on what happened. The split is about whether the woman who did it was operating in reality or had been pushed out of it by misdiagnosis, overmedication, and provider fragmentation. Shavaun explains why that question has no clean answer — and why the discomfort the audience feels when they try to answer it is the point. She walks through the Andrea Yates comparison — why some women accused of filicide receive public sympathy and others receive none, and what decides the difference. She addresses the judge's decision to block dozens of women from testifying about their own psychosis and what that means for jurors who have never been exposed to the condition they are evaluating. Patrick Clancy said he was not married to a monster — he was married to someone who got sick. Even if the insanity defense succeeds, Lindsay never walks free. Shavaun closes on what justice looks like here — for the children, for Patrick, and for the next woman the system is already failing. Tony Brueski and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of Night Bird, discuss the Lindsay Clancy case. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [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 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [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 #InsanityDefense #ShavaunScott #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeToday #PostpartumPsychosis #MentalIllness #DuxburyMA #AndreaYates

Josh Duggar Blames THIS For His 2015 Confession

His brother gets arrested and charged with a life felony involving a girl who was nine. And Josh Duggar, sitting in a federal prison cell four years into his own sentence, has his attorney put out a statement about how hard it is to be falsely accused. He "lives with the painful reality of how false accusations can destroy a life," it says. Publicity can "twist the truth into sensationalized fiction." A jury convicted him. A federal judge refused to overturn it. An appeals court upheld it. The Supreme Court declined to hear it. Four levels of the federal judiciary examined the case against Josh Duggar and left it standing. He is still, in his own telling, the one this happened to. In 2015, a statement went out under his name admitting he'd led a double life and, in his own words, "acted inexcusably" and "hurt others." The country read it. It ended everything. In 2025, Josh Duggar told a federal court he didn't write it. He says television producers did. That's what he's doing in there. Not serving a sentence, taking it apart, one admission at a time. And one of the eight grounds in that motion drags his sisters into it. He walks out February 2, 2033. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [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 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [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. #JoshDuggar #DuggarFamily #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #JoshDuggarAppeal #JoshDuggarPrison #19KidsAndCounting #DuggarNews #JosephDuggar #TrueCrimePodcast

Can Lindsay Clancy Win Without These Witnesses?

Lindsay Clancy postpartum psychosis defense — the women who could explain it best have been shut out of the courtroom by a judge's order. Kevin Reddington asked to call women who have survived postpartum psychosis so a jury could hear what it does to a person from someone who has actually been inside it. Judge William Sullivan said no. That leaves the defense explaining the most important concept in the case entirely through paid clinicians, in a trial where the Commonwealth is seeking a first-degree murder conviction. The rest of the defense file is documentation. Lindsay Clancy told her husband at the end of December that she was having thoughts of hurting her kids. She admitted herself to a psychiatric hospital on New Year's Eve and was discharged. Nineteen days later, Cora, Dawson, and Callan were dead. Her attorney has said she was prescribed roughly thirteen psychiatric medications over about four months, and both she and her husband are suing the providers who wrote them. Criminal defense trial attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski for an honest look at whether any of this is enough. Can a jury be convinced that planning and psychosis coexist? How much did that ruling actually cost her? And what does a jury do with a father who buried three children and then asked strangers to forgive the person who killed them? There is also the question every person following this case wants answered — whether the woman at the center of it will ever open her mouth in that courtroom. The defense's position is simple. Every institution that could have stopped this had the information and did nothing with it. END LINKS Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [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 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [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 — 10 #LindsayClancy #KevinReddington #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #MaternalMentalHealth #MentalHealthSystem #DuxburyMurders #BobMotta #TrueCrimePodcast

Did Lindsay Clancy Say Too Much On Her Own Phone?

Lindsay Clancy trial coverage — the Duxbury mother's own phone may be the strongest witness the prosecution has, and she is the one who filled it. Prosecutors say a note Lindsay Clancy typed about her older children roughly three months before their deaths belongs in front of the jury. They also say her phone shows her checking how long her husband would be gone on the evening of January 24, 2023. He left at 5:15 to pick up dinner and medication. He was back a little after six. The Commonwealth calls that planning and has charged her with three counts of first-degree murder. Her attorney, Kevin Reddington, does not dispute that she killed Cora, Dawson, and Callan. He disputes that the person who did it was capable of understanding any of it, and he has a stack of medical records he says proves the system had been failing her for months. Criminal defense trial attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski to pull the prosecution's case apart. The hardest thing to explain to a jury is that severe psychosis does not announce itself — a person can be completely untethered from reality and still send a text about takeout. Whether twelve strangers can hold both of those ideas at the same time may decide this entire trial. There is one more piece the state is counting on, and it has nothing to do with the phone. It is what Lindsay Clancy did for a living, and how prosecutors plan to turn her career into evidence that she knew precisely what she was doing and precisely who to tell. Cora was five. Dawson was three. Callan was eight months old. END LINKS Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [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 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [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 — 10 #LindsayClancy #DuxburyMurders #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #MurderTrial #InsanityDefense #BobMotta #TrueCrimePodcast

Why No One Screens For What Lindsay Clancy Had

Every screening tool used in OB-GYN and pediatric offices across the United States is designed to catch postpartum depression. Sadness. Hopelessness. Difficulty bonding. None of them screen for postpartum psychosis — a condition that involves hallucinations, command voices, delusions, and a complete break from reality. It affects one to two women in every thousand births. And the person going through it almost never knows it is happening. Lindsay Clancy was a labor and delivery nurse who sought help from every corner of the medical system after the birth of her third child. She went to her providers. She called crisis lines. She checked herself into McLean Hospital. She was prescribed nine medications over four months. She told her doctors she was having intrusive thoughts. Her civil lawsuit alleges those were auditory hallucinations — voices she could not distinguish from reality — and that her providers treated them as anxiety without ever asking the question that would have changed the diagnosis. A forensic psychiatrist later diagnosed her with Bipolar Disorder I with postpartum onset — meaning the antidepressants her doctors prescribed may have triggered the psychotic episodes they kept failing to identify. Her husband Patrick told a friend that Lindsay seemed overmedicated and was acting like a zombie. An outside hospital flagged overmedication and misdiagnosis. According to the lawsuit, the response from her nurse practitioner never came. Tony Brueski explains the condition at the center of Lindsay Clancy's murder trial — what it is, what it is not, and what every person with a new mother in their life needs to understand. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [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 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [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 #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrimeToday #MentalHealth #TrueCrime #PostpartumDepression #InsanityDefense #MaternalMentalHealth #DuxburyMom #PatrickClancy