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Is Lindsay Clancy A Monster Or A Patient?

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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

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episode Does Lindsay Clancy's Own Job Prove She Knew? artwork

Does Lindsay Clancy's Own Job Prove She Knew?

Lindsay Clancy murder trial — prosecutors want a jury to look at her résumé and conclude she understood exactly what she was doing. She was a labor and delivery nurse. That is the fact the Commonwealth wants to sit in front of the jury while it argues deliberate premeditation. A woman who worked in maternal health knew the language, knew the screening tools, and knew how to present. Kevin Reddington's response is that she used all of that knowledge to ask for help, repeatedly and specifically, and the system handed her prescriptions and a discharge paper instead. This is the full three-part conversation between Tony Brueski and criminal defense trial attorney Bob Motta covering the entire case. The first segment goes through the prosecution's evidence — the timing of a takeout order, an errand, and a note on her phone that a prosecutor read out loud in open court. The second examines what is left of the defense after the pretrial rulings, including the decision to keep women who have survived postpartum psychosis off the stand, and the roughly thirteen psychiatric medications her attorney says she was prescribed over about four months. The third takes on the justice question directly: what a verdict is supposed to accomplish when both outcomes end in confinement, and why the people who wrote those prescriptions will only ever face a civil claim. Patrick Clancy buried three children, asked the world to forgive his wife, sued her doctors, and will take the witness stand. Cora was five. Dawson was three. Callan was eight months old. This trial is going to make a lot of people pick a side they did not expect to pick. 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 #InsanityDefense #MaternalMentalHealth #MurderTrial #BobMotta #TrueCrimePodcast

23. juli 20261 h 2 min
episode Did Prosecutors Rig Lindsay Clancy's Trial? artwork

Did Prosecutors Rig Lindsay Clancy's Trial?

People searching the Lindsay Clancy trial want to know about postpartum psychosis and the insanity defense. What almost nobody is covering is the pattern of prosecution moves that shaped this trial before it ever started. Between July 9 and July 20, the Commonwealth made three deliberate plays. Strangulation charges dropped to eliminate a jury's middle ground between life without parole and a psychiatric hospital. Lay witnesses who survived postpartum psychosis blocked from testifying about what the illness feels like. Defense expert witnesses challenged on the first morning of jury selection before a single juror sat down. Tony explains why the pattern matters more than any individual ruling. Massachusetts law puts the burden on prosecutors to prove criminal responsibility once insanity evidence is introduced. That means the prosecution needs to control the information the jury receives, and every voice that gets removed from the room is one fewer obstacle to their proof. The episode also covers what Reddington asked for and didn't get. He wanted the judge to tell jurors about the reversed burden before opening statements. Prosecutors objected. The judge sided with the prosecution. So the jury enters not knowing who has to prove what — and the Commonwealth gets to build its case first. Plus: what the defense has left after the bench was stripped, the eighteen-juror panel, and why the version of her mind the jury carries into deliberation depends on who they never heard from. 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: #LindsayClancy #ClancyTrial #TrueCrimeToday #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #CriminalResponsibility #DuxburyMassachusetts #InsanityDefense #TrueCrimePodcast #KevinReddington

Yesterday19 min
episode Is Lindsay Clancy Getting Out Of This At All? artwork

Is Lindsay Clancy Getting Out Of This At All?

Lindsay Clancy sentencing outcomes — people keep asking whether she will get away with it. The honest answer is that neither verdict lets her leave. If the jury in Plymouth Superior Court finds that Lindsay Clancy was not criminally responsible, Massachusetts moves toward committing her to a state psychiatric hospital with periodic reviews of whether she could ever safely live in a community. If the jury convicts her of first-degree murder, the sentence is mandatory life without parole and the judge weighs nothing. There is no version of this where she goes back to a normal life. Criminal defense trial attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski to ask the questions the coverage keeps skipping. Why is the state pushing this case so hard when the alternative verdict already ends in confinement? What does anyone gain by sending a woman who cannot walk into a prison? And with a mandatory sentence waiting at the end, how much does every evidentiary ruling in this trial really matter? There is also the uncomfortable math of the civil suits. Lindsay Clancy is suing her providers. Patrick Clancy is suing her providers. If those cases succeed on the theory that a badly managed course of medication triggered a psychotic break, the outcome for the people who prescribed is financial. The outcome for her is a locked door either way. Advocates warn that prosecutions like this one tell struggling mothers to stay silent about the thoughts that scare them most. Prosecutors answer that three children died and silence is not a plan. Cora was five. Dawson was three. Callan was eight months old. Somewhere in this argument, they are supposed to be the point. 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 #CriminalJustice #NotCriminallyResponsible #PostpartumPsychosis #MentalHealthSystem #BobMotta #TrueCrimePodcast

Yesterday19 min
episode Is Lindsay Clancy A Monster Or A Patient? artwork

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

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episode Josh Duggar Blames THIS For His 2015 Confession artwork

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

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