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Twenty minutes. That's how long prosecutors say Lindsay Clancy had after sending her husband Patrick out for a CVS run and Thai takeout — and, they argued, exactly how long it took her to kill their three children, Cora, Dawson, and Callan, in the basement of their Duxbury home. ADA Jennifer Sprague told the jury of nine mothers and three men that timing a pickup order, a pharmacy stop, and three separate acts inside one twenty-minute window proves calculation, not psychosis. The defense pushed back hard: organized behavior and psychosis coexist every day in hospitals across the country, and a woman can plan a takeout run while still being controlled by something she can't fight. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries watched it all unfold from inside the courtroom across five weeks and more than eighty witnesses — close enough to see the jury's reaction in real time and watch Lindsay's demeanor shift through the hardest testimony. He tells Tony Brueski which argument actually carried weight with the parents on that jury. The stakes were personal for millions watching: Lindsay had been prescribed more than a dozen psychiatric medications in the months before, documented her symptoms in a journal, and told multiple providers she was having intrusive thoughts about harming her children. The defense says the medical system failed her. The prosecution says reaching out for help proves she knew exactly what she was doing. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Check out Robin Dreeke's Master Class http://masterclass.com/robindreeke 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 #BobMotta #LindsayClancyTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #MaternalMentalHealth #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #MurderTrial #KevinReddington #CriminalJustice 

Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries spent five weeks and more than eighty witnesses inside the gallery at Lindsay Clancy's murder trial — close enough to watch her face change in real time, close enough to see what nine mothers sitting on that jury did when prosecutors described how each of her three children died. He joins Tony Brueski to describe what the broadcast cameras never captured: Patrick Clancy's family and Lindsay's own parents sitting feet apart in the same gallery for five straight weeks, the tension in the hallways during recess, and one specific moment when the entire room shifted at once. From there, Bob breaks down the prosecution's central argument — that Lindsay used a twenty-minute window, while Patrick was out for CVS and Thai takeout, to kill Cora, Dawson, and Callan with calculation, not confusion. The defense answered that organized behavior and psychosis coexist constantly in hospitals nationwide, pointing to Lindsay's documented history: more than a dozen psychiatric medications in the months before, a journal tracking her symptoms, and repeated warnings to her doctors that she was having intrusive thoughts about harming her children. Bob explains which version the jury seemed to believe, based on what he watched play out in real time from the seat next to her. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod Check out Robin Dreeke's Master Class http://masterclass.com/robindreeke 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 #BobMotta #LindsayClancyTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthCourt #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #MurderTrial #DefenseDiaries #Courtroom 

The broadcast showed testimony. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries saw what the camera left out. The families sitting feet apart in the gallery. The jury's mothers breaking during the worst evidence. The energy during recesses. And the moment the entire room shifted.Bob joins Tony Brueski for the full three-part breakdown of Lindsay Clancy's murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court. He starts with the courtroom experience the cameras could not transmit — what Lindsay looked like in person, how the gallery held up over five weeks, and what the jury's body language revealed. He moves to the prosecution's claim that a CVS run proves premeditation and the defense's argument that over a dozen medications destroyed Lindsay's brain. He addresses ADA Jennifer Sprague's argument that Lindsay resented her life and Kevin Reddington's response calling the prosecution's case repulsive.Bob closes with Lindsay's future. She has been locked inside Tewksbury Hospital since 2023, paralyzed from the waist down. Andrea Yates has been committed for over twenty years. Whether prison or a psychiatric facility, Lindsay's address is a locked building. Bob explains the commitment process, the annual evaluations, and whether any realistic path exists for her release.This is the trial from inside the room — the grief, the medications, and the question nobody in that gallery could answer.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis 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 #LindsayClancyTrial #BobMotta #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #InsanityDefense #HiddenKillers #PatrickClancy #MurderTrial #DefenseDiaries

The families sat in the same gallery for five weeks at Plymouth Superior Court. Patrick Clancy's side and Lindsay's parents — Michael and Paula Musgrove — watched over eighty witnesses testify about the deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries was in the room for every session.Bob joins Tony Brueski to describe what the broadcast could not capture. He walks through the jury's visible reactions during the prosecution's most difficult evidence — the autopsy testimony, the crime scene descriptions, and ADA Jennifer Sprague's closing argument about how Lindsay used exercise bands on each child separately. Nine women and three men sat through all of it. Bob describes what their faces looked like.He also describes Lindsay's in-person appearance and behavior throughout the trial — the moments she was composed, the moments she was not, and how she responded to specific testimony about her children. Bob addresses the gallery tension during recesses: the tension between the families, the energy between the legal teams, and the silence that filled the hallways when court was not in session.There was a moment when the entire room shifted in one direction. Bob identifies it and explains what it told him about where the case was headed.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis 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 #LindsayClancyTrial #BobMotta #TrueCrime #PlymouthCourt #PostpartumPsychosis #HiddenKillers #MurderTrial #DefenseDiaries #Courtroom

There was a moment inside Plymouth Superior Court when the entire room shifted. The families in the gallery felt it. The legal teams felt it. The jury's body language changed. And it was not on the broadcast.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries was in the gallery for every day of Lindsay Clancy's five-week murder trial. He sat close enough to see Lindsay's hands, her eyes, and the way she carried herself through testimony about the deaths of her three children — Cora, Dawson, and Callan. He watched the nine mothers and three men on the jury absorb the prosecution's description of what happened in the basement on January 24, 2023.Bob tells Tony Brueski what the room held that the camera could never transmit. He describes the grief in the gallery — Patrick Clancy's family and Lindsay's parents occupying the same space for five weeks. He walks through the recesses, the hallway silences, and the off-camera exchanges that shaped the atmosphere inside the courtroom. He identifies which testimony hit the jury hardest and which landed differently than the legal teams expected.The human cost of this trial was visible from three feet away. The broadcast never got close enough to show it.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis 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 #LindsayClancyTrial #BobMotta #TrueCrime #PlymouthCourt #PostpartumPsychosis #HiddenKillers #MurderTrial #DefenseDiaries #Courtroom

ADA Jennifer Sprague argued Lindsay Clancy did not want her life anymore. She was depressed. She was exhausted. She was done. She did not want to try anymore. The prosecution's theory is that Lindsay killed her three children — Cora, Dawson, and Callan — because they were her protective factor. As long as they were alive, she could not kill herself. Removing them was the plan.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries was in the room when Sprague made that argument to a jury of nine mothers and three men. He joins Tony Brueski to assess whether it landed — or whether it sounded like a prosecutor telling a room full of parents that a sick mother resented her own children.The defense painted a different picture. Kevin Reddington argued Lindsay was a labor and delivery nurse who named her daughter Cora after the first baby she ever delivered. She sought treatment from multiple providers. She was prescribed over a dozen psychiatric medications in months. She documented her declining mental state in a journal whose handwriting deteriorated as the medications piled up. Reddington called the prosecution's case repulsive.Bob walks through both arguments from inside the courtroom — how Sprague built the resentment theory, how Reddington dismantled it, and which version the parents on the jury appeared to absorb. He also addresses the question millions of mothers watching this case are asking: where is the line between being overwhelmed and being broken?Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis 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 #LindsayClancyTrial #TrueCrime #BobMotta #MaternalMentalHealth #HiddenKillers #MurderTrial #KevinReddington #CriminalJustice

Andrea Yates drowned her five children in a bathtub in 2001. She was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2006. She has been confined to a state psychiatric facility in Texas for twenty years. She has never been released. She has never been deemed safe for the public. Lindsay Clancy is facing the same legal question in Massachusetts, and the parallels between the two cases are the subject of this conversation.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries joins Tony Brueski to walk through what the two cases share. A mother in psychiatric crisis. Dead children. An insanity defense. And a public that struggled to reconcile mental illness with the worst outcome. He also examines where the cases diverge: Yates had a documented history of psychosis and prior suicide attempts; Lindsay's diagnosis path was different, with postpartum depression escalating through a cascade of over a dozen medications.Bob explains what commitment looks like under Massachusetts law versus Texas law, what the annual evaluation process involves, and what would have to happen for Lindsay to ever be deemed restored and released. He addresses the physical reality of Lindsay's life — paralyzed, medicated, confined to Tewksbury Hospital since 2023 — and whether the distinction between prison and a psychiatric facility is meaningful for a woman in her condition.The question at the center of this conversation is whether Lindsay Clancy ever leaves a locked building.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis 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 #LindsayClancyTrial #TrueCrime #BobMotta #AndreaYates #HiddenKillers #CriminalJustice #MurderTrial #JuryDeliberation

The prosecution says Lindsay Clancy chose the basement three times. The defense says her doctors piled on medications until her brain broke. The jury has five options for each child — prison, hospital, or freedom are all on the table.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries was inside the courtroom for the full trial. He joins Tony Brueski for the complete breakdown — prosecution, defense, the Patrick conspiracy, and what happens to Lindsay no matter what the jury decides.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis 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 #LindsayClancyTrial #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #BobMotta #PatrickClancy #InsanityDefense #HiddenKillers #CriminalJustice #MurderTrial

Patrick Clancy came home and found all three of his children in the basement with exercise bands still around their necks. The prosecution says Lindsay put them there deliberately. The defense says her brain was in psychosis and she could not have stopped herself.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries was inside the Plymouth courtroom. He joins Tony Brueski to break down how the prosecution's closing argument landed with the jury — the puppet analogy, the phone call, and whether the state proved Lindsay knew what she was doing.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis 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 #LindsayClancyTrial #ClosingArguments #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthCourt #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #MurderTrial #CriminalJustice

Lindsay Clancy's defense attorney rattled off prescription after prescription for the jury. The defense argued her doctors kept piling on psychiatric medications without coordinating her care — and that the result was a woman whose brain broke before she ever walked into that basement.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries was inside Plymouth Superior Court. He joins Tony Brueski to assess how the defense case played in the courtroom and whether the medication evidence moved the jury.END LINKSListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis 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 #KevinReddington #InsanityDefense #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #LindsayClancyTrial #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #CriminalDefense #MurderTrial

If the jury finds Lindsay Clancy not criminally responsible, she does not go home. Massachusetts law allows the state to commit her to a psychiatric facility — six months initially, renewable every year, no maximum sentence. Andrea Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2006. She is still committed twenty years later.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries joins Tony Brueski to break down the verdict options, the conspiracy theories blaming Patrick, and what the rest of Lindsay's life actually looks like.END LINKSListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis 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 #PatrickClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #TrueCrime #ConspiracyTheory #PostpartumPsychosis #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #MedicalMalpractice #TrueCrimeCommunity

Tonight on America At Night with McGraw Milhaven, veteran criminal defense attorney and Defense Diaries host Bob Motta provides a recap of the Lindsay Clancy trial, examining the case, the courtroom proceedings and the key legal issues surrounding it. Entertainment guru Matt Wolfe takes a look at the life and legacy of Dolly Parton, from her remarkable career in music and entertainment to her enduring influence far beyond the stage. Sarah Pritchard, Executive Director of the Rosie the Riveter Trust, discusses the work of the organization supporting Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park and the stories of sacrifice, opportunity and social change that shaped America during World War II. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The prosecution's psychiatrist contradicted her own medical records. The defendant sobbed and told the courtroom she couldn't continue during autopsy testimony. Some jurors cried. And a conspiracy theory accusing Patrick Clancy of framing his wife persists despite having no foundation in the trial evidence.All of it happened this week inside Plymouth Superior Court during the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. She admits to killing them. The defense argues postpartum psychosis and overmedication. The prosecution says she acted intentionally.Criminal defense trial attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries was in the courtroom. He covers the Commonwealth's witness problem and the emotional toll of the autopsy testimony on everyone in that room. He also examines why Patrick Clancy — a man treated as a grieving father inside the courtroom — is being tried on TikTok.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJgJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis 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 #LindsayClancyTrial #BobMotta #PatrickClancy #KevinReddington #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #DefenseDiaries #TrueCrimeToday

Three things happened inside Plymouth Superior Court during the third week of the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. The prosecution's own psychiatric witnesses described a woman desperate for help she never received. The autopsy testimony reduced jurors and the defendant to tears. And every piece of evidence presented continued to contradict the conspiracy theory millions of people are spreading on social media.Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. She admits killing her children. Her defense argues postpartum psychosis and overmedication. Prosecutors allege deliberate, rational action.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries was in the courtroom for all of it. He takes on the prosecution's growing witness problem and what it was like being in the room when Lindsay collapsed during testimony about her daughter's autopsy. He also addresses why the TikTok theory that Patrick Clancy framed his wife dies on contact with the trial record.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJgJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis 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 #LindsayClancyTrial #BobMotta #PatrickClancy #KevinReddington #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #DefenseDiaries #TrueCrimeToday

Week 3 of the Lindsay Clancy murder trial produced psychiatric witnesses who undercut the prosecution's case, autopsy testimony that left the courtroom in tears, and a conspiracy theory about Patrick Clancy that has no basis in the evidence.Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. She admits to killing her children. Her defense argues she was overmedicated and in a postpartum psychotic state. Prosecutors say she was deliberate.Criminal defense trial attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries was present throughout the week at Plymouth Superior Court. He examines the prosecution's problem with its own witnesses, what the jury is experiencing as the emotional weight of the trial escalates, and the distance between what the evidence shows about Patrick Clancy and what TikTok claims he did.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJgJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis 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 #LindsayClancyTrial #BobMotta #PatrickClancy #KevinReddington #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #DefenseDiaries #TrueCrimeToday

Five mental health professionals took the witness stand this week at Plymouth Superior Court as prosecution witnesses in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. Every one of them described a woman in psychiatric crisis — cycling through medications, unable to sleep, calling a suicide hotline, begging providers to help her. The prosecution called them to prove Clancy was rational. The jury heard something else.Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. Her defense attorney Kevin Reddington argues she was overmedicated and suffering from postpartum psychosis.The most damaging moment for the prosecution came when Dr. Jennifer Tufts, the psychiatrist who treated Clancy for four months exclusively through telehealth, contradicted her own medical records on the stand. Reddington read the notes back to her. She told the jury she didn't mean what she wrote.Criminal defense trial attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries has been in the courtroom observing the prosecution's case. He breaks down what the jury is actually hearing, what Tufts's cross-examination revealed, and whether the Commonwealth's own witness list is doing the defense's work.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJgJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis 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 #LindsayClancyTrial #BobMotta #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #PostpartumPsychosis #MurderTrial #DefenseDiaries #TrueCrimeToday

Patrick Clancy testified for two days at Plymouth Superior Court about finding the bodies of his three children. He was cross-examined by both sides. Neither accused him of killing anyone. Both treated him as a father whose children were taken from him.TikTok has a different version. A conspiracy theory with millions of views says Patrick strangled his own children and pushed his wife from a second-story window to cover it up. The theory's key evidence is that someone changed shoes.Lindsay Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. She admits to the killings. Her defense attorney Kevin Reddington says she was in a postpartum psychotic state. Patrick has since remarried and has a new baby. People online treat his ability to move forward as evidence of guilt.Bob Motta of Defense Diaries was in the courtroom watching all of it. He examines what the trial evidence actually reveals about Patrick, why the conspiracy collapses under facts, and what drives an audience to invent an alternate killer when a mother admits she took her children's lives.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJgJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis 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 #PatrickClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #BobMotta #TikTok #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #MurderTrial #DefenseDiaries

Patrick Clancy sat on the witness stand at Plymouth Superior Court and described finding the bodies of his three children. He testified for two days. Both the prosecution and defense questioned him. Neither accused him of anything. Both treated him as a father who lost everything.On TikTok, millions of people believe he orchestrated the entire thing. The evidence they cite is a pair of boots.Lindsay Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. She admits she killed them. Her attorney Kevin Reddington admits it. The trial is not about who killed those children. It is about whether Lindsay was criminally responsible.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries was in the courtroom for Patrick's testimony and has been present throughout the trial. He examines what the evidence actually proves about Patrick Clancy, why the conspiracy persists despite unanimous agreement in the courtroom, and whether a jury in 2026 can remain sealed off from the theories flooding their social media feeds.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJgJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis 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 #PatrickClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #BobMotta #TikTok #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #MurderTrial #DefenseDiaries

Lindsay Clancy's father sat in the gallery at Plymouth Superior Court and watched the medical examiner begin testimony about his granddaughter's autopsy. He started crying. His daughter was sobbing at the defense table, telling the room she couldn't do it. The judge called a recess and had Clancy wheeled out of the courtroom.Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. She admits killing her children but argues postpartum psychosis and overmedication caused a psychotic break. Prosecutors allege she planned the killings.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries was in the courtroom during the autopsy testimony and throughout Week 3. He walks through what the jury is seeing that the livestream cannot capture — the reactions, the body language, and what Lindsay Clancy actually looks like after twenty-one days in that chair. He also examines whether jurors can follow the judge's instruction to set their emotions aside after seeing those photographs.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJgJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis 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 #LindsayClancyTrial #BobMotta #KevinReddington #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #MurderTrial #DefenseDiaries #TrueCrimeToday

Lindsay Clancy called a suicide hotline twice before her three children died. The psychiatrist treating her at the time had no idea. That psychiatrist, Dr. Jennifer Tufts, took the witness stand this week as a prosecution witness at Plymouth Superior Court — and defense attorney Kevin Reddington spent three hours pulling her treatment decisions apart.Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. The defense argues she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and was overmedicated by the providers now testifying against her.Tufts treated Lindsay for four months through telehealth. She never met her patient in person. She did not request records from another clinic. When Reddington confronted her with her own medical notes, she told the courtroom her written documentation did not reflect what she meant.Criminal defense trial attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries has been in the courtroom watching the prosecution's witness parade all week. Five mental health professionals took the stand, and every one of them described a woman who was cycling through medications, losing sleep, and asking for help she wasn't getting.Motta breaks down what he saw, what the jury is absorbing, and whether the prosecution's case is surviving its own witnesses.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJgJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis 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 #LindsayClancyTrial #BobMotta #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #PostpartumPsychosis #MurderTrial #DefenseDiaries #TrueCrimeToday

Twenty-one days of testimony. Sixty-plus witnesses. Autopsy photographs of her children shown to the jury. A birthday spent in a wheelchair inside Plymouth Superior Court. And Lindsay Clancy's murder trial is not close to finished.Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. Her defense argues postpartum psychosis and overmedication. The prosecution says she was deliberate.This week Clancy broke down during the autopsy testimony. She sobbed and said she couldn't continue. The judge ordered recesses. Her father was in tears in the gallery. Some jurors cried when they saw the photographs.Bob Motta of Defense Diaries has been in the courtroom watching it all. He describes what Lindsay looks like now, how defense attorney Kevin Reddington is handling the emotional weight, and whether the jury that walked in three weeks ago is the same jury sitting in those chairs today.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJgJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis 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 #LindsayClancyTrial #BobMotta #KevinReddington #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #MurderTrial #DefenseDiaries #TrueCrimeToday

Every person in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial agrees that Lindsay killed her three children. She admitted it. Her attorney Kevin Reddington admitted it. Patrick Clancy confirmed it on the witness stand. The prosecution built their entire case around it. No one disputes what happened inside that Duxbury home in January 2023.On TikTok, millions of people have decided Patrick is the killer. The conspiracy says he framed Lindsay and pushed her from the window. The evidence behind the theory is a pair of boots.Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. The defense argues postpartum psychosis and overmedication.Criminal defense trial attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries has been inside Plymouth Superior Court all week. He breaks down the gap between what the courtroom evidence shows and what social media believes, and what it means when an audience constructs a new villain because the real story is too painful to accept.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJgJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis 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 #PatrickClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #BobMotta #TikTok #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #MurderTrial #DefenseDiaries

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington read Dr. Jennifer Tufts's own medical records back to her on the witness stand. She had documented pressured speech in Lindsay Clancy's chart — a potential indicator of mania. On the stand, Tufts told the jury she did not mean what her notes said. Her exact words: "I don't care what it says. I know what I meant."Tufts treated Clancy through telehealth for four months before the January 2023 deaths of her three children. She never met her patient face to face. She did not request records from another provider. She did not know Clancy had contacted a suicide crisis line twice during treatment.Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder. The defense argues she was overmedicated and experiencing postpartum psychosis. The prosecution alleges she acted intentionally.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta, host of Defense Diaries, has been inside Plymouth Superior Court watching the prosecution present its case. He walks through what Tufts's testimony means for the jury, what the other psychiatric witnesses revealed, and whether the prosecution's own evidence is telling the defense's story.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJgJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis 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 #LindsayClancyTrial #BobMotta #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #PostpartumPsychosis #MurderTrial #DefenseDiaries #TrueCrimeToday

Bryan Kohberger broke three and a half years of silence with a statement that thanks a lot of people. The public. The state. His own family. The strangers online who believe he's innocent. Four names never show up anywhere in it: Kaylee, Madison, Xana, Ethan. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott breaks down what that statement is actually doing — an opening that positions Kohberger as the wronged party, the line "my actual innocence is my truth," and a new affidavit accusing his own defense attorneys of telling him guilt wasn't an important factor when he took the plea. At the same time, his handwritten petition to withdraw that plea has a paper trail of its own. Reporters traced the phrase "broken plea" straight to the title of a true crime book, and "clumps of hair," the detail he leans on hardest, doesn't appear in a single court filing — only in that book. His own defense team previously tried to shut the book down with a cease-and-desist letter. A DNA expert his defense hired had already tested that hair and, according to PEOPLE, found it consistent with Ethan Chapin's own. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries and Tony Brueski cover what Kohberger swore to under oath on a nine-page questionnaire before this plea was accepted, and why Steve Goncalves — the father who resisted the deal harder than anyone in that courtroom — now says he wants a trial and the death penalty back on the table. It's the full picture of a case built on a book, an omission, and a father who changed his mind. Hashtags #BryanKohberger #IdahoStudentMurders #TrueCrimeToday #ShavaunScott #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #EthanChapin #BrokenPlea #KohbergerCase #TrueCrime Links & Legal Footer Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: 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 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter 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. 

After three and a half years of silence, Bryan Kohberger finally spoke — and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott noticed what he left out before she noticed what he put in. His statement calls the case against him "a work of fiction," invites the state to seek the death penalty again, and thanks the people who believe he's innocent. He references the public, the state, his family, his supporters. He never once names Kaylee, Madison, Xana, or Ethan. Scott breaks the statement down line by line — the opening that positions Kohberger as the wronged party, the phrase "my actual innocence is my truth," and a new affidavit accusing his own defense attorneys of telling him guilt wasn't an important factor in taking the plea. Meanwhile, his handwritten petition to withdraw that plea has its own origin story. Reporters traced key phrases in it back to a true crime book — "broken plea" is literally the book's title, and "clumps of hair," the detail Kohberger cites as proof of his innocence, appears nowhere in any court filing. His own defense team once tried to suppress that same book with a cease-and-desist letter. A DNA expert his defense hired had already tested that hair and found it consistent with Ethan Chapin's own, according to PEOPLE. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries joins Tony Brueski to explain why Steve Goncalves — the father who resisted this plea deal hardest — is now the one pushing for a trial and the death penalty, and whether any of what Kohberger filed has a real shot in court. They also walk through the nine-page questionnaire where Kohberger answered "yes" under oath, confirming the plea he's now trying to take back was entered voluntarily. Hashtags #BryanKohberger #IdahoStudentMurders #HiddenKillers #ShavaunScott #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #EthanChapin #BrokenPlea #KohbergerCase #TrueCrime Links & Legal Footer Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: 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 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter 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. 

Three and a half years of silence ended with a statement that names almost everyone except the four people Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to killing. He calls his case "a work of fiction." He invites the state to seek the death penalty again. He thanks the public, his family, and the strangers online who believe he's innocent. Kaylee, Madison, Xana, and Ethan never appear once. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott walks through the statement line by line — the framing that casts Kohberger as the wronged party, the phrase "my actual innocence is my truth," and a new affidavit accusing his own defense attorneys of telling him guilt wasn't an important factor when he agreed to the plea. His handwritten petition to withdraw that plea tells its own story. Reporters traced "broken plea" directly to the title of a true crime book, and "clumps of hair," the detail at the center of his innocence claim, appears nowhere in the actual court record — only in that book. His own defense team once sent its author a cease-and-desist letter. According to PEOPLE, a DNA expert his defense hired had already tested that hair and found it consistent with Ethan Chapin's own. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries and Tony Brueski break down what happens next, what Kohberger swore to under oath before this plea was accepted, and why Steve Goncalves — the father who fought this deal hardest — now wants the trial and the death penalty he once tried to avoid. This channel continues tracking every filing in the case as the petition moves through the court. Hashtags #BryanKohberger #IdahoStudentMurders #KohbergerCase #ShavaunScott #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #EthanChapin #BrokenPlea #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime Links & Legal Footer Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: 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 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter 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. 

A father takes the stand for the prosecution — then sues the doctors instead. That's where the Lindsay Clancy murder trial stands after its first week in Plymouth Superior Court, and it's not the story anyone expected walking in. Patrick Clancy testified that the day before his three children died, Lindsay seemed fine — she built a snowman with them, texted normally, gave no outward sign anything was wrong. Prosecutors are using that testimony to argue she was rational enough to plan what came next. Jurors also heard a seven-minute 911 call, saw pajamas and exercise bands entered as evidence, and learned about a fourteen-second phone call Patrick received after the children were already dead, with no idea anything had happened. But the defense pulled a different thread on cross-examination. Lindsay had checked into McLean Hospital on New Year's Eve. She'd been to the ER. She'd told providers, repeatedly, about intrusive thoughts involving her own children — and Women and Infants Hospital had already flagged overmedication and a possible misdiagnosis that nobody followed up on. Now here's the twist: Patrick and Lindsay have both filed separate civil lawsuits against the healthcare providers who treated her. The same man who testified against his wife is, outside the courtroom, blaming the medical system for what happened. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries joins Tony Brueski to break down what it means for a jury to hear both stories at once, and whether a case built on "she seemed fine" can survive a father who doesn't seem to believe it either. They also unpack ADA Buckingham's opening line — that people with mental illness commit crimes every day and are still responsible — and whether the jury will still buy it after cross. Hashtags #LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #TrueCrimeToday #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #CriminalResponsibility Links & Legal Footer Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: 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 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter 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. 

Patrick Clancy sat in the witness box for the prosecution in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial — and by the time cross-examination finished, jurors had heard a very different story than the one that put him there. Plymouth Superior Court opened its first full week with a seven-minute 911 call, pajamas and exercise bands entered as physical evidence, and a fourteen-second phone call Patrick received after his children were already gone, with no idea what had happened on the other end of the line. The state leans hard on one detail: Patrick testified that the day before, Lindsay built a snowman with the kids and texted like everything was normal. Prosecutors call that proof she was lucid enough to plan. ADA Buckingham told jurors flatly that people with mental illness commit crimes every day and are still held responsible for them. Then the defense got its turn. Records showed Lindsay checked into McLean Hospital on New Year's Eve. She went to the emergency room. She told providers, repeatedly, about intrusive thoughts involving her own children. Women and Infants Hospital had already flagged overmedication and a possible misdiagnosis — a flag nobody ever answered. What the jury may not expect: both Patrick and Lindsay have filed separate civil lawsuits against the healthcare providers who treated her. The man testifying for the prosecution is, outside the courtroom, blaming the same system the state is asking jurors to look past. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries joins Tony Brueski to unpack what actually hurt the prosecution on cross-examination, what Massachusetts asks a jury with no medical background to decide, and what it means that the children's own father says the doctors failed first. They also break down whether the civil suits undercut the state's timeline, or whether a jury can hold both stories in its head at once. Hashtags #LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillers #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #CriminalResponsibility Links & Legal Footer Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: 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 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter 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. 

Here's what the prosecution didn't count on in the Lindsay Clancy trial: their own witness might be their biggest problem. Patrick Clancy took the stand in Plymouth Superior Court to help the state prove his wife was rational enough to plan what happened to their three children. He described one of her best days — a snowman, normal texts, nothing that looked like a woman in crisis. Prosecutors leaned into it hard. Jurors sat through a seven-minute 911 call. They saw the pajamas. They saw the exercise bands. They heard about the fourteen-second phone call Patrick got after the children were already gone, a call where he had no idea anything had happened. Then cross-examination flipped the room. Lindsay had checked herself into McLean Hospital on New Year's Eve. She'd gone to the ER. She'd told providers, more than once, about intrusive thoughts involving her own children. And Women and Infants Hospital had already flagged overmedication and a possible misdiagnosis — a warning that went nowhere. And then came the detail nobody in that courtroom saw coming: Patrick Clancy filed a civil lawsuit against the doctors. Lindsay filed her own, separately. The father who just testified for the prosecution is, outside those courtroom doors, telling a different story about who's actually responsible. Tony Brueski sits down live with criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries to go through it in real time — what ADA Buckingham's opening statement bet on, what the defense pulled out of Patrick on cross, and whether a jury asked to judge a mother's mind can ignore what her own husband believes happened to her. They also get into how Massachusetts law defines criminal responsibility for someone the state's own witness may not fully believe was in control. Hashtags #LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillersLive #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #CriminalResponsibility Links & Legal Footer Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: 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 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter 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. 

Same attorney. Two cases that look nothing alike once you get past the headlines.In Plymouth, the prosecution is arguing that Lindsay Clancy's best moments prove she was rational enough to plan what happened. Patrick Clancy — the prosecution's own witness — filed a civil lawsuit against her doctors. The defense has a hospital that identified overmedication and tried to intervene before it was too late.In Idaho, Bryan Kohberger is trying to undo a guilty plea he confirmed under oath using arguments traced to a true crime book. The evidence he says was withheld was tested by his own defense team. The family that fought the plea harder than anyone is welcoming a retrial.Bob Motta of Defense Diaries examines both cases with Tony Brueski — the emotional strategy in Plymouth, the legal reality in Idaho, and what connects them.Tony Brueski and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: 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 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis 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 #BryanKohberger #TrueCrimeToday #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #TrueCrime #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #IdahoMurders #PostpartumPsychosis #PleaWithdrawal

The prosecution's own lead witness walked out of the courtroom and filed a civil lawsuit against the people who were supposed to help his wife. Patrick Clancy is not suing to punish Lindsay. He is suing the doctors. Both he and Lindsay filed separate suits naming the providers who prescribed, adjusted, and failed to monitor seven medications that were in her blood that night.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries examines what the defense extracted from cross-examination — testimony that no provider warned Patrick it was unsafe to leave Lindsay alone with the children despite her ER visits and documented intrusive thoughts. Motta covers the documented fact that Women and Infants Hospital identified overmedication, reached out to her nurse practitioner, and never heard back. He also addresses what it means to ask a jury of non-medical professionals to decide whether someone was sick enough to lack criminal responsibility.Tony Brueski and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: 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 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis 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 #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillers #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #CriminalResponsibility #TrueCrime #HealthcareFailure

The Lindsay Clancy trial is playing out in Plymouth Superior Court. The prosecution says her best day is proof she planned what happened. Her husband testified for the prosecution and then sued her doctors. The defense says seven medications were in her blood and a hospital identified the problem before it was too late and nobody responded.In Idaho, Bryan Kohberger wants to take back a guilty plea for four murders using arguments traced to a true crime book. The evidence he says was hidden was already examined by an expert his lawyers hired. The family that opposed the plea deal is daring him to go to trial.Bob Motta of Defense Diaries covers both cases with Tony Brueski — the emotional architecture of the prosecution in Plymouth, the defense case built from the prosecution's own witnesses, and the Kohberger petition's legal reality.Tony Brueski and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: 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 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis 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 #BryanKohberger #HiddenKillers #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #TrueCrime #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #IdahoMurders #PostpartumPsychosis #PleaWithdrawal

Two cases, one attorney, one conversation that covers both.The prosecution in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial built its first week around her best day, the 911 call, and a fourteen-second phone call. Then the prosecution's own witness filed a lawsuit against her doctors. In the Kohberger case, a handwritten petition from prison claims innocence — with language traced to a book and evidence his own defense team already examined.Bob Motta of Defense Diaries joins Tony Brueski to break down the prosecution's strategy in Plymouth, what Patrick Clancy's civil lawsuit reveals, where Kohberger's legal theory came from, and whether any defense attorney would take either of these cases to trial from where they stand.Tony Brueski and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: 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 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis 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 #BryanKohberger #HiddenKillers #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #TrueCrime #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #IdahoMurders #PostpartumPsychosis #PleaWithdrawal

The prosecution put Patrick Clancy on the stand to prove Lindsay had intent. What came out on cross told a different story — a woman who sought help from providers who never warned her husband it was unsafe to leave her alone with the children.Patrick filed a civil lawsuit. So did Lindsay. Both suits name the healthcare providers who managed her medications. The father of three dead children looked at everything and decided the system failed his family.Bob Motta of Defense Diaries joins Tony Brueski to cover the cross-examination testimony the prosecution did not plan for, the documented fact that a hospital identified overmedication and tried to intervene before it was too late, and the question of whether the people in the courtroom are the right defendants.Tony Brueski and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: 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 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis 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 #PatrickClancy #TrueCrimeToday #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #CriminalResponsibility #TrueCrime #HealthcareAccountability

Bryan Kohberger's handwritten petition uses a phrase that is the title of a book published months before he filed. The evidence term he cites appears in no court record — only in that book. And the evidence he says was hidden from him was examined by an expert his own lawyers paid for.Bob Motta of Defense Diaries joins Tony Brueski to break down what this petition is built on, what the sworn record says about whether the plea was voluntary, and what the historical pattern tells you about defendants who tried to undo pleas they took to avoid execution.They also cover Steve Goncalves welcoming a retrial, the procedural reality of what happens if the plea is withdrawn, and why the question that matters most is not whether Kohberger can get this heard — it is whether any attorney would stand beside him at trial.Tony Brueski and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: 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 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis 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#BryanKohberger #KohbergerPlea #TrueCrimeToday #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #IdahoMurders #UniversityOfIdaho #PostConvictionRelief #BrokenPlea #TrueCrime

The language in Bryan Kohberger's handwritten post-conviction petition mirrors a true crime book published in April 2026. The key evidence term he uses appeared nowhere in court records — only in the book. And the evidence he claims was hidden was already tested by an expert his own defense team hired.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries examines the petition against the record. He covers the nine-page questionnaire Kohberger signed confirming his plea was free and voluntary, Steve Goncalves welcoming a retrial and saying the family will pursue the death penalty, and the historical pattern of defendants who tried to undo death-penalty-avoidance pleas and failed.Motta also addresses the one question that hangs over this entire filing: is there a single defense attorney in the country who would take Kohberger to trial carrying a signed confession and a sworn admission under oath?Tony Brueski and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: 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 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis 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#BryanKohberger #KohbergerPlea #HiddenKillers #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #IdahoMurders #UniversityOfIdaho #PostConvictionRelief #SteveGoncalves #TrueCrime

The prosecution at Plymouth Superior Court spent its first week doing something specific. Not just presenting evidence — building a sequence. The 911 call first. Then the pajamas. Then the exercise bands. Then the fourteen-second phone call. By the time any psychiatric expert takes the stand, the prosecution is betting the jury has already decided.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries joins Tony Brueski to examine the prosecution's approach — from the "best day" testimony to the argument that Lindsay was doctor shopping, to ADA Buckingham's opening statement that people with mental illness commit crimes every day and are held responsible.They cover whether the prosecution's evidence sequence is designed to prove intent or overwhelm a defense before it begins, what happens when jurors absorb emotional testimony before hearing clinical explanations, and what Massachusetts law actually requires for criminal responsibility.Tony Brueski and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: 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 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis 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 #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #CriminalResponsibility #TrueCrime #MurderTrial

Bryan Kohberger says his defense team hid exculpatory evidence from him before he pleaded guilty. But reporting from PEOPLE shows a DNA expert hired by that same defense team tested the evidence in question — hair found in Ethan Chapin's hand — and determined it was consistent with Chapin's own hair. The finding was included in a June 2025 filing, one month before the plea.Bob Motta of Defense Diaries joins Tony Brueski to work through what the petition actually claims versus what the record shows. They cover where Kohberger's language came from, what the nine-page questionnaire and sworn colloquy mean for his chances, and why the Goncalves family — which opposed the plea deal from day one — is now on record welcoming a retrial and the return of the death penalty.Tony Brueski and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: 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 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis 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#BryanKohberger #KohbergerPlea #HiddenKillers #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #IdahoMurders #UniversityOfIdaho #PostConvictionRelief #HairEvidence #TrueCrime

Patrick Clancy testified for the prosecution. He described a woman having one of her best days. Then the defense cross-examined him and pulled a different picture — a mother who checked herself into McLean Hospital, who fought to get help, who told multiple providers what was happening in her head.Not one of them told Patrick it was unsafe to leave her alone with the children.Now both Patrick and Lindsay have filed separate civil lawsuits against her healthcare providers. Bob Motta of Defense Diaries joins Tony Brueski to analyze what the lawsuits reveal about what this family actually believes happened, the hospital that identified the problem and got no response when it tried to raise the alarm, and whether Massachusetts is asking a jury to make a medical judgment without medical training.Tony Brueski and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: 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 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis 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 #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillers #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #TrueCrime #CriminalResponsibility #MedicalMalpractice

Patrick Clancy took the stand and described a woman having one of her best days. The prosecution is betting the jury cannot reconcile that with a psychosis defense.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries joins Tony Brueski to analyze whether the prosecution's first week at Plymouth Superior Court built a legal case or an emotional trap. Motta covers the seven-minute 911 call that forced a recess, the fourteen-second phone call the prosecution says proves awareness, the doctor shopping argument, and what ADA Buckingham meant when she told the jury that sick and guilty are not opposites under Massachusetts law.They cover what the defense has to overcome after the prosecution's evidence sequence, how juries process psychiatric testimony after emotional exposure, and whether there is a version of this case where medical evidence can still land.Tony Brueski and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: 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 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis 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 #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #TrueCrime #CriminalResponsibility #MurderTrial

The central claim in Bryan Kohberger's petition is that his defense team withheld exculpatory evidence — specifically hair found in Ethan Chapin's hand. But a DNA expert retained by that same defense team examined the hair and found it consistent with Chapin's own reference sample. That report was filed in June 2025, a month before the plea.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries examines the gap between what the petition claims and what the record shows. He covers the true crime book that appears to be the source of Kohberger's legal theory, the nine-page questionnaire confirming the plea was voluntary, and the Goncalves family now welcoming a retrial and the return of the death penalty.Motta addresses the procedural reality of what Kohberger faces if he succeeds — Idaho, firing squad, and a jury that knows he already confessed — and whether the historical pattern offers a single case where this worked.Tony Brueski and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: 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 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis 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#BryanKohberger #KohbergerPlea #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #HiddenKillers #IdahoMurders #UniversityOfIdaho #PostConvictionRelief #EthanChapin #TrueCrime

The prosecution told the jury something in its first week that reframes the entire case. Lindsay Clancy was having one of her best days. She built a snowman with her children. She texted normally. And the state says that is the evidence — not of recovery, but of rational capacity.Bob Motta of Defense Diaries joins Tony Brueski to work through the prosecution's argument at Plymouth Superior Court. They cover the seven-minute 911 call that shook the courtroom, the fourteen-second phone call where Lindsay sounded normal after, and the prosecution's claim that visiting multiple providers was not desperation but doctor shopping. ADA Buckingham opened by telling the jury that people with mental illness are held responsible for crimes every day.Motta breaks down whether that argument survives once the defense puts a psychiatrist on the stand — or whether the prosecution has already made the medical testimony irrelevant.Tony Brueski and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: 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 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis 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 #LindsayClancyTrial #TrueCrimeToday #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #CriminalResponsibility #TrueCrime #Massachusetts

Lindsay Clancy is suing her doctors. Her husband is suing her doctors. If a civil jury agrees the treatment caused what happened, those providers write a check. Lindsay is still the only one who answers for it in a criminal courtroom. She's charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan, at their Duxbury, Massachusetts home on January 24, 2023. She's pleading not guilty by reason of insanity. She's a former labor and delivery nurse who says she begged the medical system for help for weeks and was handed a stack of prescriptions instead. Prosecutors say roughly three months before the killings, she typed something about her older children into her phone, a note read aloud in court. She's permanently paralyzed after going out a second-story window the night her children died. Criminal defense trial attorney Bob Motta, host of Defense Diaries, joins Tony Brueski to argue out what the state is actually chasing here. What does a life sentence accomplish for a woman who will carry this for the rest of her life either way? Whether a jury can understand that a person can be completely detached from reality and still function well enough to send a text message is the question underneath everything else. If she's found not criminally responsible, she doesn't go free. Massachusetts sends her to a locked state psychiatric hospital with periodic reviews, and she's already been in state custody since 2023. Jury selection began July 20 in Plymouth Superior Court. Three children never got a say in any of this. Almost nobody is arguing about them. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: 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 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter 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. Hashtags #LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #BobMotta #PostpartumPsychosis #InsanityDefense #DuxburyMurders #ClancyTrial #MentalHealthSystem 

Nobody in Plymouth Superior Court knows yet if Lindsay Clancy is going to take the stand in her own defense, and it might be the single biggest decision left in this trial. Lindsay is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan, at their Duxbury, Massachusetts home in January 2023. She's pleading not guilty by reason of insanity. She checked herself into a psychiatric hospital on New Year's Eve after telling her husband she was having thoughts of hurting her children. She was discharged. Nineteen days later, the children were dead. Her attorney puts her medication count at roughly thirteen psychiatric drugs across about four months, with a dose increase and a sleepless night the day before it happened. Jury selection began July 20, opening with prosecutors moving to challenge the defense's experts, the third motion in eleven days aimed at limiting who speaks for Lindsay. Prosecutors had already dropped all three strangulation charges on July 9, and on July 13 the judge blocked women who've survived postpartum psychosis from testifying about it in their own words. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta, host of Defense Diaries, joins Tony Brueski to break down whether a jury can hold two ideas at once: that someone can plan something and still be nowhere near reality, and how the Massachusetts burden of proof in insanity cases shapes the prosecution's strategy. They dig into what Patrick Clancy testifying, suing his wife's doctors, and asking the public to forgive her actually does to a jury's read of this case. Three children are dead. This trial is about a system that had every warning and did nothing with it. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: 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 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter 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. Hashtags #LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #BobMotta #PostpartumPsychosis #InsanityDefense #DuxburyMA #ClancyTrial #PlymouthSuperiorCourt 

Lindsay Clancy case coverage — she understood one thing better than almost any defendant who has ever sat in a courtroom like this, and both sides want to use it.Her profession put her inside the delivery room for a living. She knew the screening questions. She knew the warning signs. She knew what a patient has to say to be taken seriously and what gets waved off. Prosecutors intend to argue that knowledge is proof she was in control. Her lawyers intend to argue it proves the failure was never hers.Tony Brueski and criminal defense trial attorney Bob Motta, host of Defense Diaries, cover this case end to end across three segments.The first works through the Commonwealth's evidence, including the note prosecutors say she left on her phone about her older children and the timeline they say shows she measured her husband's errand. The second breaks down the defense after a judge barred women who have experienced postpartum psychosis from testifying, leaving expert witnesses to carry the entire concept. The third is the hardest one — what justice means when a not criminally responsible verdict leads to a locked hospital and a conviction leads to mandatory life with no judicial discretion of any kind.Somewhere in the middle of all of it is a mental health system that received every warning available. She told her husband she was having thoughts of hurting her kids. She admitted herself to a psychiatric hospital. Nineteen days after her discharge, all three of her children were gone.Cora was five. Dawson was three. Callan was eight months old.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: 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 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis 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 #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #MaternalMentalHealth #DuxburyMurders #MentalHealthSystem #InsanityDefense #TrueCrimeCommunity

Lindsay Clancy case update — the prosecution is building its first-degree murder case around a phone, a fifty-minute window, and one sentence she typed herself.There is a reason Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague reads that note in open court instead of tucking it into an exhibit list. It lands. It is the difference between a case about a sick woman and a case about a woman who had been thinking about something for months, and the Commonwealth would very much like a jury to hear it that way.Everything else in the prosecution file is small on its own. A text about dinner. An order placed. A drive to a pharmacy in the next town. Time stamps that do not add up to much until somebody arranges them in a row and calls it planning. That is the state's argument in Plymouth Superior Court, and it carries a mandatory sentence if it works.Criminal defense trial attorney Bob Motta, host of Defense Diaries, walks Tony Brueski through the case from the other side of the table. Where the prosecution's timeline is genuinely strong. Where it falls apart under what the medical literature actually says about psychosis and functioning. Why the state keeps pushing this toward black and white when the entire case lives in the gray.Then there is the part almost nobody sees coming — the way the Commonwealth plans to use Lindsay Clancy's own job against her, and what that says about how this system treats a person who knew exactly which words to use when she asked for help.Three children are dead. Cora was five, Dawson was three, and Callan was eight months old. The fight is over a mind, and the state says it already has the receipts.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: 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 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis 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 #JenniferSprague #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #DuxburyMurders #PostpartumPsychosis #MurderTrial #MassachusettsCrime #CriminalResponsibility #TrueCrimeCommunity

Lindsay Clancy trial update — the defense went into jury selection already down a weapon, and it happened in a pretrial ruling most people never heard about.Judge William Sullivan denied Kevin Reddington's request to call women who have been through postpartum psychosis as witnesses. No lay testimony about the condition. Experts only. For a defense whose entire case depends on a jury genuinely understanding an illness almost none of them have encountered, that ruling matters more than any piece of physical evidence in the file.What Reddington still has is a timeline that reads like an indictment of everyone who touched her chart. At the end of December, Lindsay Clancy told her husband she was having thoughts of hurting her children. She checked herself into a psychiatric hospital on New Year's Eve. She was released. Nineteen days later her three children were dead. Her lawyer puts the medication count at roughly thirteen psychiatric drugs in about four months, and her malpractice suit describes a dose raised the day before with no sleep that night.Criminal defense trial attorney Bob Motta, host of Defense Diaries, joins Tony Brueski to break the defense down honestly — what works, what does not, and what a jury is likely to reject on instinct. A lot of people watching this are on medication a doctor handed them. They deserve a straight answer about what these drugs can and cannot do.Then there is Patrick Clancy, testifying and suing at the same time, and the decision Reddington may have to make about putting his client on that stand.The defense is not arguing she did not do it. It is arguing that everybody else had a chance to stop it.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: 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 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis 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 #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #MentalHealthCrisis #Polypharmacy #DuxburyMurders #InsanityDefense #TrueCrimeCommunity

Lindsay Clancy case analysis — even the verdict her defense is fighting for ends with her locked up, which raises a question about why this prosecution looks the way it does.The best realistic result for Lindsay Clancy is a jury finding that she lacked criminal responsibility. That verdict points toward a state psychiatric hospital and a schedule of reviews, not a front door. She has been in state hospital custody since 2023 and is paralyzed from the waist down. The worst result is a first-degree conviction, which in Massachusetts means mandatory life without parole and a judge with no room to weigh anything at all.Criminal defense trial attorney Bob Motta, host of Defense Diaries, joins Tony Brueski to take the whole justice question apart. What is the Commonwealth actually pursuing, and why with this much force. What purpose a prison serves for a woman who is going to carry the grief of what this illness did to her family for as long as she is alive. Whether the judge's calls on evidence have been fair, because when the sentence is fixed, those rulings decide everything.Then there is the civil case running in parallel. If a jury accepts that the treatment caused the psychotic break, the prescribers face a settlement and she still faces a cell. Advocates argue that prosecuting her at all teaches every struggling mother in America to keep her mouth shut. The other side says three children are dead and that cannot be where the conversation ends.Both of those things are true at the same time. That is what makes this case impossible.Cora, Dawson, and Callan deserve an answer that the legal system may not be built to give.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: 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 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis 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 #NotCriminallyResponsible #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #MentalHealthSystem #PostpartumPsychosis #CriminalJustice #DuxburyMurders #MaternalMentalHealth #TrueCrimeCommunity

A prosecutor called it a "mission of death." A judge agreed. But a criminal defense attorney who has spent his career on the other side of cases like this says the Mackenzie Shirilla prosecution has vulnerabilities that should have been exposed at trial — and weren't, because the defense never mounted the challenge the evidence demanded.Shirilla was convicted of four counts of murder for the Strongsville, Ohio crash that killed Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan. The prosecution relied on surveillance footage, black box data, selected text messages, and a prior incident on I-71. The defense accepted a bench trial with one judge and no jury, then failed to meaningfully challenge the prosecution's interpretation of any of it.Bob Motta, criminal defense attorney and host of Defense Diaries, breaks down what he would have done differently at every stage. The surveillance footage shows a car — in cross-examination, you force the detective to admit it doesn't show the driver's face, hands, or consciousness. The black box data is consistent with premeditation, but you bring your own expert to demonstrate it's equally consistent with loss of consciousness. The ninety-three thousand texts were curated for maximum damage — you introduce the mundane final messages to show the jury that the prosecution told half the story. And the I-71 incident that anchored the prior-calculation argument has a competing account that the defense inexplicably left on the table.The prosecution won. The question is whether the charge matched the evidence or whether a compelling story did the work that proof couldn't.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: 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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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.#MackenzieShirilla #TheCrash #TheCrashNetflix #DominicRusso #DavionFlanagan #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Justice

Defense failure. Prosecutorial overreach. Systemic rigidity. And a defendant making post-conviction choices that may be sealing her own fate. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta says the Mackenzie Shirilla case isn't just one thing that went wrong — it's a cascade of failures that compounded at every stage.Shirilla was seventeen when the crash in Strongsville, Ohio killed Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan. She was convicted of four counts of murder in a bench trial. Her defense raised a medical condition but never proved it. The prosecution charged murder without a confession. A post-conviction petition with expert evidence was rejected over a one-day filing miss. And then she agreed to a Netflix documentary that reignited every negative characterization and prompted a fellow inmate to publicly contradict her on-camera persona.Motta, host of the Defense Diaries podcast, sat down for a full examination of the case. He starts with what the defense should have done — the experts that were needed, the evidence that was available, and the strategy that could have challenged the prosecution's narrative. He moves into the prosecution's overreach — whether murder was the right charge and whether the bench trial format gave the state an unfair advantage. And he addresses the post-conviction reality — the documentary fallout, the families' opposition, the social media footprint, and what Mackenzie should actually be doing inside prison to have any chance at parole in 2037.The legal system processed Mackenzie Shirilla. The question is whether it processed her correctly — and whether anything she does from here can change the trajectory.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: 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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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.#MackenzieShirilla #TheCrash #TheCrashNetflix #DominicRusso #DavionFlanagan #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Justice