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Whatever this jury decides, Lindsay Clancy is not walking out of that courthouse a free woman — and True Crime Today brought in defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis to explain exactly where she goes instead. Verdict one: not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility. That doesn't mean release in Massachusetts. It means up to forty days of court-ordered observation, followed by a civil commitment petition that carries no statutory expiration. Faddis draws the comparison to Andrea Yates, found not guilty by reason of insanity in Texas in 2006 for drowning her five children — she's still committed two decades later and has never accepted the release hearing offered to her every year. Verdict two: first-degree murder, which in Massachusetts comes with an automatic sentence of life without parole and an automatic appeal to the state's highest court. Faddis walks through what that appeal actually reviews, why the psychiatric evidence doesn't disappear just because the jury rejected it, and the lesser verdict — second-degree murder — that most people following this case don't realize is even on the table. Underneath both paths is the same physical reality: Clancy has been paralyzed from the waist down and on suicide watch since January 2023, held at Tewksbury Hospital since that May under court order. One verdict keeps her in a hospital bed. The other moves her into a prison system Faddis says isn't equipped for what her care requires. Faddis lays out both roads in full — what triggers each one, how long they can last, and what almost never happens after either: her going home. Links: 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 Legal Disclaimer: This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags: #LindsayClancy #EricFaddis #TrueCrimeToday #LindsayClancyTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #CriminalResponsibility #MassachusettsMurder #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #AndreaYates 

There's no version of this verdict where Lindsay Clancy walks out of a courtroom and goes home. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis lays out exactly what waits for her down each of the two paths this jury can choose. Path one: not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility. Under Massachusetts law that doesn't mean release — it triggers up to forty days of court-ordered observation, after which the state can petition for civil commitment with no time limit written into the statute. Andrea Yates walked that same road in Texas after drowning her five children in 2001 and was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2006. She remains committed to this day, declining her annual release hearing every single time it's offered. Path two: first-degree murder. Massachusetts has no sentencing hearing for that charge — the penalty is automatic life without parole, and the case is automatically appealed to the state's Supreme Judicial Court, which will review every piece of psychiatric evidence the jury just weighed and set aside. Faddis explains what makes a jury choose second-degree murder instead — the option that actually carries eventual parole eligibility — and why almost no one convicted of first-degree murder ever sees the outside of a facility again. Then there's the body this all has to move. Clancy is paralyzed from the waist down and has been under suicide watch since January 2023, housed at Tewksbury Hospital since that May. Conviction means transferring that care into a prison system that isn't built for it. Two verdicts. Two very different buildings. Neither one is a door marked exit. Links: 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 Legal Disclaimer: This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags: #LindsayClancy #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #LindsayClancyTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #CriminalResponsibility #MassachusettsMurder #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #AndreaYates 

Two verdicts. Neither one lets Lindsay Clancy go home — and defense attorney Eric Faddis is here to explain why, with the case law laid out in full. If this jury goes with not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility, Massachusetts still holds her: up to forty days of observation first, then a civil commitment petition with no expiration date attached. Faddis points to Andrea Yates as the template — found not guilty by reason of insanity in Texas back in 2006, and still inside a state hospital today, turning down her release hearing year after year. If the jury convicts on first-degree murder instead, there's no sentencing debate to watch. The penalty is automatic — life without parole — and the verdict triggers a mandatory appeal straight to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, one that has to reckon with every psychiatric expert both sides put on the stand. Faddis breaks down the option jurors have that most people watching don't know exists: second-degree murder, the only verdict on that slip that comes with eventual parole eligibility. He also gets into what a successful appeal would even need to argue, and how rarely a life-without-parole sentence actually gets undone. None of this happens in the abstract. Clancy has been paralyzed from the waist down and on suicide watch since January 2023, currently held at Tewksbury Hospital under court order. A guilty verdict means moving that care and that body into the corrections system — one Faddis says isn't built for what her situation requires. Two verdict slips. Two entirely different rest-of-her-life sentences. Faddis breaks down both. Links: 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 Legal Disclaimer: This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags: #LindsayClancy #EricFaddis #HiddenKillersLive #LindsayClancyTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #CriminalResponsibility #MassachusettsMurder #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #AndreaYates 

This jury has three options on the verdict slip. Guilty of first-degree murder — life without parole, automatic appeal, a transfer from a hospital to a prison. Guilty of second-degree murder — life with eventual parole eligibility. Not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility — commitment to a psychiatric facility with no time limit. Every path leads somewhere the audience does not expect.Eric Faddis walks through all three as a defense attorney and former prosecutor. He starts with the deliberation itself — how the burden of proof sits with the prosecution in Massachusetts, how the two-prong legal test works, and what the prosecution's own expert conceded when he acknowledged Clancy had a severe mental illness but drew the line at psychosis. The legal standard says mental disease or defect and does not specify a diagnosis.On the not-guilty path, Faddis explains the commitment process under MGL Chapter 123. The court can order 40 days of observation, then the state petitions for involuntary commitment. There is no cap. Andrea Yates has been committed for twenty years. Periodic review hearings give the state a chance to prove Clancy still meets the standard. Her attorney still has a role.On the guilty path, Clancy leaves Tewksbury Hospital — where she has been since May 2023, paralyzed and on suicide watch — and enters the corrections system. The automatic SJC appeal carries the full trial record, including every piece of mental health evidence the jury rejected. Faddis explains what that review examines and whether the rejected defense has a second life.The jury must be unanimous. If it deadlocks, the judge can issue a last-resort instruction. If that fails, the result is a mistrial.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 #HiddenKillers #JuryDeliberation #NotGuiltyInsanity #LifeWithoutParole #PostpartumPsychosis #CriminalAppeal #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrime

Three verdicts. Three completely different futures. Lindsay Clancy's jury begins deliberations after closing arguments Thursday, and the outcome determines whether she spends the rest of her life in a prison, a psychiatric hospital, or back in a courtroom for a second trial.Eric Faddis sits down to walk through every scenario. He covers the jury room first — the Massachusetts legal standard that puts the burden on the prosecution, the two-prong test for criminal responsibility, and why the prosecution's own expert acknowledging severe mental illness matters under a standard that says mental disease or defect without requiring a specific diagnosis.If the jury acquits, Clancy enters a commitment process with no end date. Under Massachusetts law, the state can petition for involuntary commitment after 40 days of observation. Andrea Yates has been in a state hospital for twenty years after a similar verdict. Periodic review hearings require the state to prove Clancy remains mentally ill and dangerous. Reddington continues to represent her through those hearings.If the jury convicts on first-degree murder, the sentence is mandatory life without parole. Clancy transfers from Tewksbury Hospital to the corrections system — a paralyzed woman on 24-hour suicide watch moving from a treatment facility to a prison. The conviction goes to the SJC on automatic appeal with the full trial record, including the rejected mental health evidence.If the jury deadlocks, a mistrial is declared. The Karen Read jury deliberated 23 hours across five days and could not reach agreement even after Tuey-Rodriguez instructions.Faddis covers the mechanics of each outcome and what the legal fight looks like for Reddington after every possible verdict.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 #HiddenKillers #JuryDeliberation #NotGuiltyInsanity #LifeWithoutParole #PostpartumPsychosis #CriminalAppeal #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrime

Everyone following the Lindsay Clancy trial wants to know what happens if the jury says she is not criminally responsible. The answer is not what most people expect. She does not go home. She enters a commitment system that can hold her for the rest of her life.Eric Faddis, a defense attorney and former prosecutor, breaks down the path. After a not-guilty-by-reason-of-lack-of-criminal-responsibility verdict, Massachusetts law allows the court to order Clancy hospitalized for observation and evaluation for up to 40 days. The district attorney or hospital superintendent can then petition for involuntary commitment under MGL Chapter 123. The commitment has no time limit. Release requires showing she is no longer mentally ill or dangerous — and that burden falls on the person seeking release.At periodic review hearings, the state must demonstrate that Clancy still meets the standard for continued commitment. The proceedings are adversarial. Reddington would represent Clancy at each one. The state can fight to keep her committed even after a jury rejected their criminal case.Clancy has been at Tewksbury Hospital receiving court-ordered psychiatric treatment since May 2023. She is paralyzed from the waist down and on continuous suicide watch. Inside a commitment facility, treatment is the daily structure — medication management, therapy, psychiatric evaluation. In prison, treatment is available but the institution serves a different purpose.Andrea Yates provides the closest comparison. Found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2006, she remains in a Texas psychiatric hospital twenty years later. She has declined every annual release hearing she is entitled to. Faddis examines whether Clancy's path after an acquittal would look the same.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 #HiddenKillers #PostpartumPsychosis #MentalHealthLaw #NotGuiltyInsanity #AndreaYates #CriminalResponsibility #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrime

In most states, the defense has to prove insanity. In Massachusetts, the prosecution has to prove sanity. That distinction is at the center of the Lindsay Clancy trial as closing arguments approach Thursday, and it changes how everything this jury heard over 21 days of testimony gets weighed in that deliberation room.Eric Faddis, a defense attorney and former prosecutor, explains the standard the Commonwealth must meet. Under the McHoul test, prosecutors have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Clancy could appreciate the wrongfulness of strangling Cora, Dawson, and Callan and that she could have conformed her conduct to the law. Two parts. Both required. Failing on either means Clancy is not criminally responsible.The prosecution called Dr. Avram Mack as a rebuttal witness. He told the jury Clancy had a severe depressive episode. He would not call it psychosis. The defense called experts who did. The legal standard does not pick sides on the diagnosis — it asks whether a mental disease or defect deprived her of the substantial capacity to understand or control what she was doing.Faddis walks through the human side of deliberation — how holdouts operate, how twelve people with no psychiatric training evaluate dueling expert testimony, and what happens when a jury tells the judge they are deadlocked. In the Karen Read case, five days of deliberation and a Tuey-Rodriguez instruction could not break the impasse. The judge declared a mistrial.This jury must reach a unanimous verdict. That process starts after closing arguments.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 #HiddenKillers #PostpartumPsychosis #JuryInstructions #CriminalResponsibility #InsanityDefense #MassachusettsLaw #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrime

If this jury convicts Lindsay Clancy of first-degree murder, the sentence writes itself — life in prison, no parole, no discussion. But what that sentence means in practice for a paralyzed woman who has been living in a hospital on suicide watch for over three years is a question nobody in the courtroom addresses at sentencing.Eric Faddis, a defense attorney and former prosecutor, answers it. Clancy would leave Tewksbury Hospital and enter the Massachusetts corrections system. The prison system would have to accommodate her physical condition — paraplegia requiring around-the-clock medical care — while also managing her psychiatric needs. In a treatment facility, the institution is built around care. In prison, care exists within a structure built around confinement. Faddis explains what Reddington can fight for inside that system — placement, conditions, mental health access — and how long the attorney-client relationship extends after a life sentence.Every first-degree murder conviction in Massachusetts is automatically appealed to the Supreme Judicial Court. Reddington does not need to file — the case goes up by operation of law. The SJC reviews the trial record, which includes the psychiatric testimony from both sides, the medical records, and the jury instructions on criminal responsibility. Faddis walks through what that review examines and whether the mental health evidence the jury rejected can come back in a different form.This jury can also convict on second-degree murder — life with parole eligibility. How twelve people reach that conclusion on facts where the killing is undisputed comes down to how much weight they give the mental health evidence without fully buying the insanity defense.Two exits exist from a first-degree sentence — appeal and commutation. Both are steep roads.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 #HiddenKillers #LifeWithoutParole #CriminalAppeal #MassachusettsLaw #PostpartumPsychosis #MentalHealthPrison #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrime

Lindsay Clancy has been at Tewksbury Hospital for over three years. She is paralyzed from the waist down. She has been on 24-hour suicide watch since January 2023. If this jury convicts her of first-degree murder, she leaves that facility and enters the Massachusetts corrections system. The sentence is mandatory — life without parole.Eric Faddis breaks down what that transition looks like. The prison system must accommodate Clancy's physical condition — around-the-clock medical care for a paraplegic inmate — on top of her psychiatric needs. In a treatment facility, she is a patient. In prison, she is an inmate who happens to need care. The institutional mission changes, and with it the daily structure, the staffing, and the access to mental health treatment.Faddis covers what Reddington can do for Clancy once she is inside the system. Advocacy for an incarcerated client includes fighting for placement, conditions of confinement, medical care, and mental health treatment access. The attorney-client relationship does not end with the verdict.Every first-degree murder conviction in Massachusetts triggers an automatic appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court. The trial record — including all of the mental health testimony the jury heard — goes up for review. Faddis explains what the SJC looks for and whether the rejected insanity defense evidence has any life on appeal.The verdict slip gives this jury a second option. Second-degree murder carries a life sentence with parole eligibility after 15 years. How a jury reaches that verdict when the act itself is undisputed depends on how they weigh the mental health evidence without fully accepting the insanity defense.First-degree life without parole has two exits — commutation by the governor or a successful appeal. Both are rare.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 #HiddenKillers #FirstDegreeMurder #LifeSentence #CriminalAppeal #PostpartumPsychosis #PrisonSystem #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrime

Not guilty does not mean free. If this jury finds Lindsay Clancy not criminally responsible for the deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan, she enters a commitment process governed by Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 123. That process has no end date.Eric Faddis explains the legal mechanics. The court can order Clancy hospitalized for 40 days of observation and evaluation. After that window, the DA or hospital superintendent petitions for involuntary civil commitment. The commitment is reviewed periodically — the state must prove at each hearing that Clancy remains mentally ill and poses a danger. If the state fails to make that case, release is possible. If it succeeds, the commitment continues.Clancy is already at Tewksbury Hospital, where she has received court-ordered treatment since May 2023. She is paralyzed and on 24-hour suicide watch. A commitment facility would provide daily psychiatric care — therapy, medication oversight, structured evaluation. The environment is built around treatment in a way that prison is not.The question the audience keeps asking is whether Reddington still has work to do after an acquittal. Faddis explains why the answer is yes — the commitment hearings require legal representation, the conditions of confinement require advocacy, and the periodic reviews are adversarial proceedings where the state must carry its burden.Andrea Yates has been in a state psychiatric facility for twenty years after a not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity verdict in the drowning deaths of her five children. She declines her annual release hearing every year. Faddis walks through whether that path is the most realistic comparison for Clancy's case — or whether Massachusetts law creates a different outcome.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 #HiddenKillers #NGRI #PsychiatricCommitment #MentalHealthCourt #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrime #MassachusettsMurderTrial

Most people following the Lindsay Clancy trial assume the defense has to prove she was insane. Massachusetts law says the opposite. Once the defense raises mental illness, the prosecution has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Clancy was criminally responsible when she strangled Cora, Dawson, and Callan on January 24, 2023. That burden does not shift back.Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis walks through the legal standard this jury was handed and why it matters. The McHoul test requires the Commonwealth to prove two things — that Clancy could appreciate the wrongfulness of her actions and that she could conform her conduct to the law. Fail on either, and she is not criminally responsible. The standard says mental disease or defect. It does not require a diagnosis of psychosis.Dr. Avram Mack, the prosecution's own rebuttal psychiatrist, told this jury Clancy had a severe depressive episode. He stopped short of psychosis. The legal question is whether that distinction matters under a test that never uses the word.Faddis also covers the mechanics of deliberation — how jurors choose a foreperson, how holdouts shape the conversation, and how long a judge allows a deadlocked jury to continue before stepping in. The Tuey-Rodriguez instruction is a last-resort tool Massachusetts judges use to push past an impasse. In the Karen Read case, it did not work.This jury heard from 84 witnesses across 21 days of testimony. What they do with it begins after closing arguments Thursday.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 #HiddenKillers #JuryDeliberation #CriminalResponsibility #InsanityDefense #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrime #MassachusettsMurderTrial

Closing arguments in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial begin Thursday after 21 days of testimony and 84 witnesses. What happens next is the part of the trial most people never see — twelve jurors behind a closed door, trying to agree on whether a mother who admits killing her three children was criminally responsible when she did it.Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis sits down to explain the mechanics of that room. Massachusetts law requires the prosecution to prove criminal responsibility beyond a reasonable doubt. The defense does not carry that burden. The legal test — rooted in the McHoul standard — asks two questions: could Clancy appreciate the wrongfulness of what she did, and could she conform her conduct to the law. Prosecutors must prove both. If the jury has reasonable doubt on either, the verdict is not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility.The prosecution's own rebuttal expert conceded Clancy suffered from severe mental illness. He called it depression, not psychosis. The legal standard does not specify a diagnosis — it says mental disease or defect.Faddis covers how jurors organize deliberations, how unanimous-verdict requirements shape the dynamics when holdouts emerge, and what tools the judge has when a jury reports it cannot reach agreement. He explains the Tuey-Rodriguez instruction — Massachusetts' last-resort charge to a deadlocked jury — and what happened when it was used in the Karen Read case.The jury in this case includes twelve women and six men. They begin their work after closing arguments end.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 #HiddenKillers #JuryDeliberation #CriminalResponsibility #InsanityDefense #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrime #MassachusettsMurderTrial

A not-guilty verdict in Lindsay Clancy's trial does not result in her walking out of a courthouse. It results in a commitment hearing — and possibly a lifetime inside a psychiatric facility with no statutory release date.Eric Faddis sits down to explain what that path actually looks like. Under Massachusetts law, the court can order 40 days of hospitalization and observation after a finding of not criminally responsible. The district attorney then petitions for civil commitment. The commitment has no time limit. At periodic review hearings, the state must prove Clancy is still mentally ill and dangerous. If the state meets that burden, she stays. If it does not, a judge could order her release.Clancy is already at Tewksbury Hospital. She has been there since May 2023 for court-ordered mental health treatment. She is paralyzed from the waist down and under 24-hour suicide watch. Whether she goes to a psychiatric commitment facility or a prison, her medical and mental health needs remain significant. Faddis explains what the actual difference in care looks like between the two settings.Andrea Yates killed five of her children in Texas in 2001 and was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2006. She has remained in a psychiatric hospital for two decades, declining an annual hearing that could lead to release. Her attorney has said she will likely never leave.Faddis covers whether the prosecution can continue fighting to keep Clancy committed after a jury rejected their case, what daily life inside a commitment facility looks like, and whether Reddington's legal role continues after the verdict.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 #HiddenKillers #NGRI #PsychiatricCommitment #MentalHealthCourt #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrime #MassachusettsMurderTrial

A first-degree murder conviction does not end the case for Lindsay Clancy or for Kevin Reddington. It changes the fight. The sentence is automatic — life without parole — but the legal work that follows could take years.Eric Faddis sits down to explain the roads available after a guilty verdict. Massachusetts automatically sends every first-degree murder conviction to the Supreme Judicial Court for review. The SJC examines the trial record for legal errors — evidentiary rulings, jury instructions, constitutional issues. That record contains everything the jury heard, including the competing psychiatric testimony and the medical records that formed the basis of the insanity defense. Faddis explains whether that evidence, rejected by the jury, can become the foundation of an appellate argument.The physical reality of Clancy's situation adds another layer. She has been at Tewksbury Hospital since May 2023, paralyzed and on 24-hour suicide watch. A conviction means she transfers from a medical setting to a corrections facility. That handoff involves moving a paraplegic patient on continuous suicide watch into a system built for a different purpose. Faddis covers how that process works and what an attorney can push for on behalf of a client inside the prison system.The jury also has the option of finding Clancy guilty of second-degree murder, which carries life with eventual parole eligibility. Faddis breaks down how a jury lands on second degree when the defense never argued she did not kill her children.Outside of a successful appeal, the only other path out of a first-degree sentence is executive commutation. Massachusetts governors have granted commutations for first-degree murder a handful of times in decades.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 #HiddenKillers #FirstDegreeMurder #LifeSentence #CriminalAppeal #PostpartumPsychosis #PrisonSystem #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrime

TikTok creators are calling Patrick Clancy the real killer. Lindsay Clancy's own defense team has already told a courtroom she did it. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down what Patrick can do about online accusations reaching millions of people — and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott digs into a warning that came months before the deaths and never changed the treatment plan. Lindsay has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder over the deaths of five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callan. Her defense argues severe postpartum illness removed her criminal responsibility. Prosecutors argue she acted with intention. In 2022, nurse practitioner Rebecca Jollotta raised the possibility of bipolar disorder with Lindsay and her husband, partly based on a reported forty-eight hours without sleep on a new antidepressant. She prescribed an antipsychotic used for bipolar disorder and insomnia, while the antidepressant regimen continued. Dr. Jennifer Tufts testified she weighed bipolar disorder that December and set it aside for lack of mania. Staff at McLean Hospital discussed sleep loss tipping a patient hypomanic before discharging her with a diagnosis of major depressive disorder. Shavaun explains why bipolar disorder often takes years to diagnose correctly, why depression is usually the first label clinicians reach for, and whether the criteria taught in training even apply to a new mother. Faddis then returns to Patrick — creators dissecting his remarriage, analyzing his testimony for signs of guilt, and building narratives the trial evidence doesn't support. He lays out what the Alex Jones and Sandy Hook verdicts established, and why suing anonymous creators with no assets may not be worth the fight regardless of the law. LINKS, DISCLAIMER & HASHTAGS 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. #LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillers #RebeccaJollotta #ShavaunScott #EricFaddis #BipolarDisorder #ClancyTrial #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis 

Lindsay Clancy's treatment plan barely moved after a nurse practitioner flagged bipolar disorder in 2022 — and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott explains why that matters, while defense attorney Eric Faddis tackles an entirely different fight brewing online. Lindsay has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder after the deaths of five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callan. Her defense concedes she killed them and argues postpartum illness left her not criminally responsible. Prosecutors argue she knew what she was doing. Months before the killings, nurse practitioner Rebecca Jollotta told Lindsay and her husband she might have bipolar disorder, based partly on a forty-eight-hour stretch without sleep after starting an antidepressant. She added an antipsychotic used for bipolar disorder and insomnia, but the antidepressant kept going. Dr. Jennifer Tufts testified she considered bipolar disorder that December and ruled it out for lack of mania — euphoria, high energy, grandiosity. McLean Hospital staff discussed sleep loss tipping someone hypomanic before discharging Lindsay with a diagnosis of major depressive disorder. Shavaun walks through how long a bipolar diagnosis typically takes to land, why depression gets diagnosed first almost every time, and whether the standard clinical checklist was ever built with a mother of three small children in mind. From there, Faddis shifts to Patrick Clancy, who's now being accused on TikTok of murdering his own children — compared to Chris Watts, blamed for pushing Lindsay from a window — despite Lindsay's own defense team conceding in open court that she did it. Faddis explains what legal options actually exist against creators reaching millions of people, and why "theory" framing doesn't always hold up. LINKS, DISCLAIMER & HASHTAGS 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. #LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillers #RebeccaJollotta #ShavaunScott #EricFaddis #BipolarDisorder #ClancyTrial #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis 

Months before her children died, a nurse practitioner sat down with Lindsay Clancy and her husband and raised something that never changed the treatment that followed. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott explains what got missed — and defense attorney Eric Faddis tackles a very different problem now facing that same husband. Lindsay has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder after the deaths of five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callan. Her defense doesn't dispute that she killed them — it argues severe postpartum illness left her not criminally responsible. Prosecutors argue she acted intentionally. In 2022, nurse practitioner Rebecca Jollotta told Lindsay and Patrick that bipolar disorder was a possibility, based partly on a reported forty-eight hours without sleep after starting an antidepressant. She added an antipsychotic used for bipolar disorder and insomnia, but the antidepressant kept going. Dr. Jennifer Tufts testified she considered bipolar disorder that December and set it aside for lack of mania — no euphoria, no high energy, no grandiosity. At McLean Hospital, staff discussed sleep loss tipping a patient hypomanic before discharging her with a diagnosis of major depressive disorder. Shavaun breaks down how long an accurate bipolar diagnosis usually takes, why depression almost always gets diagnosed first, and whether the clinical checklist even fits a mother of three young children. Then the conversation turns to Patrick himself, now facing TikTok creators who are accusing him of murdering his own children and claiming he pushed Lindsay from a window — even as Lindsay's own defense has conceded she did it. Faddis explains what legal recourse actually looks like against anonymous accusers with a massive online reach. LINKS, DISCLAIMER & HASHTAGS 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. #LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillers #RebeccaJollotta #ShavaunScott #EricFaddis #BipolarDisorder #ClancyTrial #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis 

Lindsay Clancy messaged her providers almost every day, begging them to change what wasn't working. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski to break down a defense case built less on a single moment and more on months of documented desperation. Thirteen psychiatric medications. Daily messages asking for adjustments. Journal entries describing intrusive thoughts and brain fog in the weeks before her children died. Not one provider diagnosed postpartum psychosis before that day — every doctor and nurse practitioner who saw her documented anxiety and depression instead. The psychosis diagnosis came later, from a forensic psychiatrist retained by the defense, a timing detail Faddis says both sides know matters more than almost anything else in the record. Faddis explains why Kevin Reddington has spent three weeks dismantling the providers who treated Lindsay, including her psychiatrist, who admitted under cross-examination that she never once met Lindsay in person across fourteen telehealth sessions, didn't have her complete medical record, and didn't know Lindsay had called a suicide hotline twice. On the other side, prosecutors are leaning on what Lindsay did that morning — sending her husband out for takeout, timing his errand, and a specific search on her phone beforehand. Faddis walks through why the state considers that detail central, and why the defense conceded from day one that Lindsay killed her children, choosing instead to fight over whether she was herself when it happened. What Massachusetts law requires the state to prove beyond a reasonable doubt is where this case now turns, and Faddis makes the case for why the providers on both witness lists may end up mattering as much as anything said in closing arguments. LINKS, DISCLAIMER & HASHTAGS 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. #LindsayClancy #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #JenniferTufts #KevinReddington #PostpartumPsychosis #ClancyTrial #TrueCrime #CriminalResponsibility #DuxburyMassachusetts 

Fourteen telehealth appointments. Not one of them in person. Lindsay Clancy's psychiatrist treated her for months without ever sitting in the same room as her — and defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski to explain why that detail became one of the more damaging moments of the trial so far. Dr. Jennifer Tufts told the jury Lindsay showed no signs of psychosis. Under cross-examination from Kevin Reddington, she acknowledged she didn't have Lindsay's complete medical record, didn't know about two prior calls Lindsay made to a suicide hotline, and had become board-certified the same day Lindsay's intake paperwork was filled out. Faddis breaks down why the prosecution called her at all, and how that testimony was received once Reddington finished with her on the stand. Faddis unpacks what the prosecution needs from a witness like this — proof that Lindsay understood what she was doing — and how three hours of cross-examination complicated that. The state is also leaning on what Lindsay did the morning her children died: sending her husband out, timing the errand, and a phrase she typed into her phone that prosecutors consider central to their case. Meanwhile, the defense has spent weeks documenting thirteen psychiatric medications, near-daily messages begging providers for changes, and journal entries describing intrusive thoughts and brain fog. No provider diagnosed postpartum psychosis before that day — the diagnosis came afterward, from a forensic psychiatrist the defense brought in. Faddis lays out where each side stands and what Massachusetts prosecutors still have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. The providers who treated Lindsay before her children died are turning out to be as central to this trial as anything said in the courtroom since. LINKS, DISCLAIMER & HASHTAGS 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. #LindsayClancy #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #JenniferTufts #KevinReddington #PostpartumPsychosis #ClancyTrial #TrueCrime #CriminalResponsibility #DuxburyMassachusetts 

A psychiatrist testified Lindsay Clancy showed no signs of psychosis. Then it came out she'd missed something twice. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski to walk through the moment that turned a prosecution witness into a problem for the prosecution itself. Dr. Jennifer Tufts treated Lindsay through fourteen telehealth sessions over months and never met her in person. She testified without Lindsay's complete medical record. On cross-examination from Kevin Reddington, she admitted she hadn't known Lindsay called a suicide hotline on two separate occasions, and that she'd become board-certified the same day Lindsay filled out her intake paperwork. Faddis breaks down why the state put Tufts on the stand in the first place — to establish that Lindsay was competent and aware — and why three hours of cross-examination may have accomplished the opposite. The prosecution's broader case leans on Lindsay's actions that day: sending her husband out, timing his errand, and a specific phrase she searched on her phone beforehand, a detail Faddis says the jury will keep coming back to during deliberations. On the other side, the defense has spent weeks building a picture of a woman on thirteen psychiatric medications, messaging providers almost daily begging for changes, describing intrusive thoughts and brain fog in her own journal. No provider diagnosed postpartum psychosis before her children died. That diagnosis came later, from a forensic psychiatrist retained by the defense. Faddis lays out what the state has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt in Massachusetts, and where its own witness list may be working against it. Three weeks into the trial, both sides are still calling witnesses who cut in unexpected directions and reshape the case in real time. LINKS, DISCLAIMER & HASHTAGS 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. #LindsayClancy #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #JenniferTufts #KevinReddington #PostpartumPsychosis #ClancyTrial #TrueCrime #CriminalResponsibility #DuxburyMassachusetts 

Eric Faddis is a defense attorney and a former prosecutor. In this session, he covers three active criminal cases that share a common thread: in each one, the defendant's own words are the most consequential evidence in the proceeding.Kohberger told a judge he was guilty. He signed a questionnaire. He endorsed his plea under oath. Now he says his lawyers made him lie — and his petition to withdraw the plea could put the death penalty back on the table.Clancy's journal entries were read aloud in a Massachusetts courtroom. "I feel like I'm drowning every day." The prosecution says that proves lucidity. The defense says it proves freefall. Meanwhile, the state's own psychiatrist admitted psychosis can look like cooperation.Keffe D spent fifteen years telling police, television producers, and book readers that he was in the car when Tupac was shot. He published a memoir. He gave a proffer. Now he says it was all fiction — and a Las Vegas jury is about to decide.Faddis assesses each case from both sides of the courtroom — prosecution vulnerabilities, defense strategies, and who's actually in control.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 #LindsayClancy #KeffeD #TupacShakur #HiddenKillers #IdahoMurders #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #LindsayClancyTrial #TupacMurderTrial

Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis sits down for a full session covering three of the country's most watched criminal cases.Bryan Kohberger's post-conviction petition to withdraw his guilty plea in the Idaho student murders has put the death penalty back on the table. He signed a nine-page questionnaire, told a judge he was guilty, and took four life sentences. Now he says his own lawyers coerced a false confession.Lindsay Clancy's murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court has reached its testimony phase. The prosecution's first week produced evidence that may hurt the state's case more than it helps — including the revelation that Clancy was on thirteen psychiatric medications and the state's own expert admitting psychosis can present as outward calm.Duane "Keffe D" Davis goes on trial in Las Vegas for the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur. The case is built on statements Davis made over fifteen years — to police, on camera, and in a published book. He now says he invented the entire story.Faddis covers the legal mechanics, the strategic calculations, and the risks each defendant faces — drawing on his experience as both a prosecutor and a defense attorney.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 #LindsayClancy #KeffeD #TupacShakur #HiddenKillers #IdahoMurders #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #LindsayClancyTrial #TupacMurderTrial

Former prosecutor Eric Faddis sits down to examine two cases where the adults around the victims allegedly knew more than they're saying — and the institutions that could have intervened did nothing.In the d4vd case: Celeste's parents reportedly signed travel documents, attended church with Burke, and then denied knowing him. Blair Berk is pressing the medical examiner on self-inflicted death in a dismemberment case. The bodycam shows Burke was told she was thirteen. Faddis on whether the parents face charges and whether the defense has anything left.In the Nolan Wells case: Edmiston's attorney announced categorical denials, a PI firm, and nationwide defamation lawsuits before the grand jury has convened. Twenty-five days of institutional silence, and a defense attorney is doing the job the DA should be doing. Faddis on whether discovery from a defamation suit could blow the case open.Burke has pleaded not guilty. Wells' death remains undetermined. Both were teenagers.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/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.#D4vd #NolanWells #CelesteRivas #DavidAnthonyBurke #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #HornIsland #JusticeForCeleste #JusticeForNolan

Attorney Russell Latino told reporters that anyone posting accusations about his client — one of the friends on Horn Island with Nolan Wells on July 4th — faces a nationwide defamation lawsuit. He said adding the word “allegedly” won't protect them. A PI firm has been hired. The FBI is involved after a credible death threat.Former prosecutor Eric Faddis examines what this legal strategy reveals and whether it would exist at all if Mississippi's investigation had given the public any answers since Nolan Wells was found dead. The DA sealed the autopsy. The sheriff hasn't cleared anyone. The family's independent autopsy returned undetermined. Twenty-five days of official silence, and the only people talking publicly are the friends' attorneys.Faddis on whether the threat to sue opens a door the friends might not want opened — because defamation lawsuits come with discovery, and discovery goes both ways.Nolan Wells was eighteen years old and the only one from the group who didn't come home.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/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.#NolanWells #HornIsland #Mississippi #BartEdmiston #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #GrandJury #JusticeForNolan #JacksonCounty

Five days of testimony. A twenty-one-minute window between Celeste Rivas Hernandez's Uber arrival and her phone going silent forever. DNA tying a fourteen-year-old's blood to a garage, a Tesla, and a rental home. A record deal worth up to nineteen million dollars. And a defense attorney who asked the medical examiner whether the fatal wounds could have been self-inflicted.Former prosecutor Eric Faddis reads the defense strategy Blair Berk is building and answers what the courtroom was already asking: is she actually arguing self-inflicted death in a dismemberment case, or is she stacking every fragment of reasonable doubt she can find?The defense keeps making two claims in one sentence: Burke “did not murder” Celeste and “was not the cause of her death.” Faddis on why that split language tells you everything about where the trial is headed.Burke has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Celeste was fourteen years old.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/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.#D4vd #CelesteRivas #BlairBerk #DavidAnthonyBurke #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #DeathPenalty #MurderTrial #JusticeForCeleste

David Anthony Burke sat in the same church pew as Celeste Rivas Hernandez's family. He traveled with them to Las Vegas. Her sister came along. The parents signed a notarized travel consent form sending their thirteen-year-old to London with him. And then, after Burke's arrest for Celeste's murder, her father told reporters through his attorney that he'd never had any contact with the singer.Former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down the evidence that surfaced during the five-day preliminary hearing about what Celeste's parents knew, what they signed, and what they denied — and whether California's child endangerment statute gives prosecutors a path to charging the adults who allegedly facilitated everything that happened to their daughter.Testimony showed Celeste was pregnant at thirteen. A teacher reported concerns. Deputies visited Burke's home. Nobody with authority acted on what they found. Faddis on who bears legal responsibility beyond the defendant.Burke has pleaded not guilty to all charges and is held without bail. Celeste was fourteen years old.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/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.#D4vd #CelesteRivas #CelesteRivasHernandez #DavidAnthonyBurke #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #PreliminaryHearing #LosAngeles #JusticeForCeleste

Russell Latino, attorney for one of the friends who was on Horn Island with Nolan Wells on July 4th, told reporters that the word “allegedly” will not protect social media users from a defamation lawsuit. He announced his client had cooperated fully, turned over his boat and GPS and phone, and denied any involvement. He said a PI firm has been retained to track posters nationwide. A credible death threat activated the FBI.Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis examines whether this is a legitimate response to mob harassment — or a calculated move to establish Edmiston as cleared in the court of public opinion before the grand jury decides anything. Because the investigation hasn't said a word in twenty-five days, and this attorney is already writing the narrative.The DA sealed the autopsy. The sheriff's office hasn't named or cleared anyone. The independent autopsy came back undetermined. Faddis on what happens when an attorney's threat to sue for defamation opens the door to discovery — and what discovery might reveal.Nolan Wells was eighteen years old.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/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.#NolanWells #HornIsland #Mississippi #BartEdmiston #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #GrandJury #JusticeForNolan #JacksonCounty

The preliminary hearing in the d4vd murder case put the spotlight somewhere nobody expected — on Celeste Rivas Hernandez's own family. LAPD Detective Corey Farell testified that the parents knew about Burke's relationship with their daughter. He attended their church. The sister traveled with them. They signed a notarized form for their thirteen-year-old to fly overseas with a grown man.Then her father told reporters he'd never had contact with Burke.Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis examines whether that contradiction carries legal weight — and whether parents who allegedly knew about and facilitated their daughter's contact with the man prosecutors say killed her face criminal exposure under California law.According to testimony, Celeste was pregnant at thirteen. A teacher warned authorities. Deputies showed up at Burke's door and left satisfied. The people with the least power tried the hardest to protect this child. Faddis on what that means for the people who had the most.Burke has pleaded not guilty. Celeste Rivas Hernandez was fourteen.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/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.#D4vd #CelesteRivas #CelesteRivasHernandez #DavidAnthonyBurke #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #PreliminaryHearing #LosAngeles #JusticeForCeleste

Blair Berk asked the LA County medical examiner a question the courtroom wasn't expecting — whether Celeste Rivas Hernandez's fatal wounds could have been self-inflicted. In a case where prosecutors allege the defendant ordered chainsaws, a body bag, and a burn cage under a fake name. Where a body was found in the trunk of a Tesla. Where the alleged motive is a record deal worth up to nineteen million dollars.Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down what Berk's questioning reveals about the trial defense — and whether three chainsaws that tested negative for blood and an Uber driver who couldn't confirm his passenger give the defense enough to survive the rest of the evidence.Bodycam from February 2024 shows Burke was told Celeste was thirteen. Prosecutors say the relationship continued fourteen more months. The defense says he “did not murder” her and “was not the cause” of her death — two different claims that Faddis says signal a very specific trial strategy.Burke has pleaded not guilty and is held without bail. Celeste was fourteen.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/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.#D4vd #CelesteRivas #BlairBerk #DavidAnthonyBurke #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #DeathPenalty #MurderTrial #JusticeForCeleste

Elizabeth Siders was fifteen when she married into the family now at the center of one of Ohio's most disturbing cases, and she's the one who gave birth to all sixteen children found inside that house. Tony Brueski, Robin, and defense attorney Eric Faddis break down why her own attorney is arguing she may be as much a casualty of this family as anyone. Faddis, a former prosecutor, lays out what that argument does to the sixteen felony counts she's facing and whether the law even has room for a defendant who might also be someone this system failed for eighteen years. It's a legal question with no clean answer, and it's about to shape everything that happens next in this case. The rest of the case isn't any cleaner. A Vinton County judge has silenced the Attorney General's office, the sheriff, and the prosecutor with a gag order requested by the man whose indecent exposure warrant is the reason deputies found those sixteen children at all. Five years before that, Gallia County Juvenile Court filed six truancy complaints on this family, documented that six children had missed a full year of school, and then closed every case when nobody could locate them. No one escalated it. No one called children's services. Gary Siders Senior, seventy-three, faces sixteen felony counts himself and walked free on a recognizance bond after his attorney filed five competency motions. Ohio has already approved a million dollars in emergency funding to cover the fallout in one county alone, and officials who walked through that property have compared what they found to conditions no one would accept for livestock. We go through the charges, the gag order, and exactly where this system stopped paying attention. 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 #ElizabethSiders #GarySiders #TrueCrimeToday #SixteenKids #OhioCase #ChildWelfare #TrueCrimePodcast #CrimeNews #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeCommunity 

For eighteen years, sixteen children were essentially invisible, and the woman who gave birth to every one of them is now the one facing charges. Tony Brueski, Robin, and defense attorney Eric Faddis take on the Siders case and the question sitting at its center: can Elizabeth Siders be both the defendant and someone this system also failed? She was fifteen when she married Gary Siders Junior in West Virginia. Faddis, a former prosecutor, breaks down what her attorney's argument actually does to the prosecution's case, and whether Ohio law even allows a person to occupy both roles at once. It's not a technicality. It's a question that could unravel how these sixteen felony counts get prosecuted from here, especially given that she herself grew up inside that same household. The bigger picture is just as damning. A Vinton County judge has gagged the Attorney General's office, the sheriff, and the prosecutor, all at the request of the man whose indecent exposure warrant led deputies into that house in the first place. Five years before that discovery, Gallia County Juvenile Court filed six truancy complaints on this family and documented that six children had vanished from school entirely, then closed the case because nobody could find them. Nobody escalated. Nobody called children's services. Gary Siders Senior, the seventy-three-year-old grandfather, faces sixteen felony counts himself and walked out of custody on a recognizance bond after his attorney filed five competency motions questioning whether he can even stand trial. Ohio has already approved a million dollars in emergency funding to cover the fallout, and officials who've seen the property describe conditions worse than what most people would tolerate for animals. We go through the charges, the silence, and where the system's failures actually begin. 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 #ElizabethSiders #GarySiders #HiddenKillers #SixteenKids #OhioCase #ChildWelfare #TrueCrimePodcast #CrimeNews #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeCommunity 

Sixteen children lived invisible for eighteen years, and their mother is now the one in the defendant's chair. Tony Brueski sits down with Robin and defense attorney Eric Faddis to unpack the Siders case, starting with the question nobody in this courtroom seems able to answer cleanly: is Elizabeth Siders a perpetrator, a victim, or both. Married at fifteen to Gary Siders Junior in West Virginia, she gave birth to all sixteen children found crammed into a twelve-by-twelve room, a space investigators say wasn't built to hold more than a handful of people. Faddis, a former prosecutor, explains what her attorney's argument means for the sixteen felony counts against her, and why that argument alone could change how the entire prosecution has to build its case. It's not the only unanswered question in this case. A Vinton County judge signed a gag order covering the Attorney General's office, the sheriff, and the prosecutor, at the request of the very man whose indecent exposure warrant is why anyone found those children at all. Five years earlier, Gallia County Juvenile Court had already filed six truancy complaints on this family, documenting that six children had missed an entire school year, before closing every case when the family couldn't be located. Nobody escalated it. Nobody called children's services. Gary Siders Senior, seventy-three, faces sixteen felony counts of his own and is out on a recognizance bond after his attorney filed five competency motions. Ohio has approved a million dollars in emergency funding just to handle the fallout in one county, after officials on scene described conditions inside that house as worse than how livestock are kept. We break down the charges, the silence, and the eighteen years no one caught. 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 #ElizabethSiders #GarySiders #HKLive #SixteenKids #OhioCase #ChildWelfare #TrueCrimePodcast #CrimeNews #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeCommunity 

In Mississippi, a sheriff declared no foul play in the death of Nolan Wells before the autopsy was complete, before toxicology was in, and before the FBI examined the phone. In Ohio, a county had truancy complaints on the Siders children five years before sixteen of them were found in a single room by officers executing an unrelated warrant. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis sits down for an extended conversation covering both cases — and the institutional failures that connect them.On Wells: the premature public call and what it did to the investigation's trajectory. The contradiction between the friends' account and the young woman's statement. The friend who appeared on Good Morning America and then Rolling Stone while the case was still open. The DA's agreement to present to a grand jury. On the Siders family: the gag order that silenced every official after the AG called conditions pure evil. Elizabeth Siders — married at fifteen, biological mother of all sixteen children, charged with sixteen felony counts, described by her own attorney as a possible victim. The grandfather who walked out because the county couldn't afford to keep him.Faddis brings a former prosecutor's lens to every question: who failed, what it costs, and what happens next. Tony Brueski, Robin, and Eric Faddis on Hidden Killers.—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.#NolanWells #SidersFamily #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #HornIsland #Ohio #ElizabethSiders #Mississippi #16Kids

The sheriff told the country no foul play was suspected before anyone investigated Nolan Wells' death. A county in Ohio had truancy complaints on children five years before sixteen of them were discovered in a room smaller than a jail cell. Two cases, two states, and the same question at the center of both: did the people responsible for protecting these families fail before anyone else had a chance to act? Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis covers both cases in one extended live conversation.The Nolan Wells segments cover the premature call, the friends' contradictory statements, the allegedly deleted messages, the friend who went public during the investigation, and the DA's decision to present to a grand jury for what was called a drowning. The Siders segments cover the gag order, the grandfather who walked free because of medical costs, the charges and whether child endangerment captures what investigators found, and the question that dominates everything: Elizabeth Siders was married at fifteen, is the biological mother of all sixteen children, faces sixteen felony counts, and her own attorney says she may be a victim of this family.Faddis brings a former prosecutor's perspective to every angle. Tony Brueski, Robin, and Eric Faddis break it all down live.—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.#NolanWells #SidersFamily #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #HornIsland #Ohio #ElizabethSiders #Mississippi #Investigation

Before the autopsy was finalized, before the FBI finished examining the digital evidence, before the investigation reached any conclusion, one of Nolan Wells' friends went on Good Morning America and then sat down with Rolling Stone to publicly tell his story. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis asks the question that matters: does an innocent person do a national media tour during an active investigation, or does that tell you something about what they're trying to control?The friends have attorneys. The family has Ben Crump. The family is running its own parallel investigation with private forensics examiners and a commissioned autopsy. And one detail that Crump has highlighted shifts the entire frame: the friends didn't voluntarily disclose that they had Nolan's phone and keys after his death. The family tracked the phone with Life360 and recovered it themselves.Faddis walks through every decision being made by every person connected to this case — what the friends should be doing if they genuinely want the truth, what the family's shadow investigation helps and hurts, and what everyone should be preparing for if the investigation ends without charges and a civil lawsuit follows. The Lauren Agee case provides the roadmap. Tony Brueski, Robin, and Eric Faddis on True Crime Today.—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.#NolanWells #HornIsland #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #OceanSprings #Mississippi #JusticeForNolan #FourthOfJuly #Investigation

Elizabeth Siders was fifteen years old when she was married off in West Virginia. She became the biological mother of every child found in a twelve-by-twelve room in rural Ohio — sixteen kids, some of whom could not speak, living in conditions investigators compared to livestock. She now faces sixteen felony counts of child endangerment. Her own defense attorney has argued in filings that she is a victim of this family. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down whether the law supports holding both of those positions simultaneously.The case has taken several turns since the arrest. A gag order now covers every official who spoke publicly, filed by the defense after the AG used the phrase pure evil and the sheriff described conditions worse than the animals on the property. The seventy-three-year-old grandfather was released from custody because the county couldn't afford his medical bills, and his competency is being challenged. Faddis addresses whether this man's case ever makes it to trial.Faddis also examines the charge itself — whether child endangerment captures the scope of what happened — and the truancy complaints Gallia County filed in 2021 that were never served because the family couldn't be located. Sixteen children lived off the grid for nearly two decades, and the system that's supposed to prevent this had complaints in hand and couldn't find them. Tony Brueski, Robin, and Eric Faddis on True Crime Today.—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.#SidersFamily #ElizabethSiders #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #Ohio #16Kids #ChildEndangerment #GalliaCounty #VintonCounty

A sheriff told the country no foul play was suspected in the death of an eighteen-year-old before the autopsy was finished, before toxicology existed, and before the FBI touched a single piece of digital evidence. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis explains exactly why that matters — and what it costs an investigation when the public call comes before the science.Nolan Wells went to Horn Island on the Fourth of July with friends. His body was found in the water two days later. The friends told investigators he chose to stay on the island to talk to a girl. The young woman reportedly told investigators something different. That contradiction has not been publicly reconciled, and a former prosecutor says the timeline on resolving it matters more than most people realize. Messages were allegedly deleted from Nolan's phone before the family recovered it. The FBI is examining the digital evidence now.Faddis addresses what the independent autopsy needs to show for the investigation to change direction, why the DA's commitment to a grand jury presentation may be the most significant signal in this case, and how an investigation built almost entirely on strangers' cell phone footage from a remote barrier island operates when the physical evidence barely exists. Tony Brueski, Robin, and Eric Faddis on True Crime Today.—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.#NolanWells #HornIsland #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #OceanSprings #Mississippi #JusticeForNolan #FourthOfJuly #Investigation

Before the toxicology came back, before the FBI examined his phone, before anyone reconciled the contradictions in the witness statements, the Jackson County Sheriff told the country no foul play was suspected in the death of Nolan Wells. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis explains what that kind of premature public declaration does to the trajectory of an investigation — not in theory, but in the concrete mechanics of how cases get built or buried.Nolan Wells was eighteen years old when he went to Horn Island on the Fourth of July. His friends came back. He didn't. His body was found in the water two days later. The coroner saw no obvious signs of trauma and sent the case to the state medical examiner. But a former prosecutor knows that homicide victims can drown too — held under, incapacitated, pushed from a vessel. Whether the autopsy was conducted with every scenario on the table is a question that the premature call makes harder to answer.Faddis addresses the direct contradiction between what the friends told investigators and what the young woman on the island reportedly said, the allegedly deleted messages from Nolan's phone, and why the DA's agreement to present this to a grand jury says something the sheriff's press conference didn't. Tony Brueski, Robin, and Eric Faddis on Hidden Killers.—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.#NolanWells #HornIsland #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #OceanSprings #Mississippi #JusticeForNolan #FourthOfJuly #Investigation

While the investigation into Nolan Wells' death was still active, one of his friends appeared on Good Morning America with his voice altered and then sat down with Rolling Stone magazine to publicly tell his version of events. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down what that decision does to a case — whether it helps the truth or locks a public narrative into place before the evidence can speak for itself.Every friend from the boat has an attorney. The family has Ben Crump, their own investigators, and their own autopsy. The family's attorneys flagged a specific detail: the friends had Nolan's phone and keys and didn't voluntarily tell investigators. The family tracked the phone through Life360 and recovered it themselves. Faddis asks what a reasonable, innocent person does when they're holding a dead friend's belongings — and what the silence says from a former prosecutor's perspective.This segment covers the full landscape of moves being made by everyone connected to this case. The friends' legal strategy, the family's parallel investigation, the roughly two hundred bystanders on Horn Island who may still have footage, and what the Lauren Agee case tells us about where all of this could be heading if the investigation ends without charges and the family sues. Tony Brueski, Robin, and Eric Faddis on Hidden Killers.—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.#NolanWells #HornIsland #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #OceanSprings #Mississippi #JusticeForNolan #FourthOfJuly #Investigation

Elizabeth Siders was fifteen when she married into the family whose house would eventually hold sixteen children in a single room in rural Ohio. She gave birth to every one of them. She now faces sixteen felony counts. And her own defense attorney has argued in court filings that she may be a victim of this family — not a willing participant, but someone closer to the seventeenth person trapped inside those walls. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis walks through whether that argument has legal legs and what it does to the prosecution's strategy.A judge has issued a gag order covering every official who spoke about the case — filed by the defense after the AG called the conditions pure evil and the sheriff compared them to livestock. Faddis breaks down whether the prosecution may have handed the defense a constitutional argument by allowing those public statements before anyone was indicted. Meanwhile, the seventy-three-year-old grandfather walked out of jail because the county couldn't afford his medical bills, and his attorney has filed multiple competency motions.Faddis also addresses a question that hasn't received enough scrutiny: Gallia County filed six truancy complaints against this family in 2021. They were never served. The family moved and the system lost them. For eighteen years, sixteen children existed with almost no records. Where does the government's liability begin — and can any agency actually be held accountable? Tony Brueski, Robin, and Eric Faddis on Hidden Killers.—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.#SidersFamily #ElizabethSiders #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #Ohio #16Kids #ChildEndangerment #GalliaCounty #VintonCounty

The sheriff told the country no foul play was suspected before the autopsy was complete, before toxicology was processed, before the FBI examined the digital evidence, and before anyone resolved the contradiction between what the friends said and what the young woman on the island reportedly told investigators. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down exactly what a premature public call does to a case that hasn't been built yet — and whether an investigation can recover once the lead law enforcement voice has already pointed it in a direction.Nolan Wells was eighteen years old when he went to Horn Island on the Fourth of July with friends who came back without him. His body was found two days later. Messages were allegedly deleted from his phone before the family recovered it using Life360. The FBI is now examining the device. The entire evidence picture rests on footage from roughly two hundred strangers on a remote barrier island with no surveillance infrastructure — and investigators were still asking the public for unedited material weeks after his death.Faddis walks through what the autopsy needs to show, how the grand jury commitment from the DA changes the calculus, and what happens when an official and an independent autopsy come back with different findings. Tony Brueski, Robin, and Eric Faddis break it down live.—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.#NolanWells #HornIsland #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #OceanSprings #Mississippi #JusticeForNolan #Investigation #FourthOfJuly

She was married off at fifteen. She gave birth to all sixteen children. She faces sixteen felony counts. And her own attorney says she might be a victim of the Siders family, not one of its architects. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down the hardest legal question in this case: can Elizabeth Siders be a defendant and a victim at the same time, and what does that argument do to a prosecution trying to hold four people accountable for what happened inside one house?Four adults face sixty-four combined felony counts of child endangerment. The grandfather, seventy-three years old, walked out of custody because Vinton County couldn't cover his medical expenses — and his defense attorney has filed five competency motions. The AG called the conditions pure evil. The sheriff compared them to livestock. And now a gag order has silenced every official, filed by the very defense team whose client's unrelated warrant led deputies to the house in the first place.Faddis addresses whether child endangerment is the right charge for what investigators described, why the gag order could become the defense's strongest weapon, where the state's liability begins after Gallia County filed truancy complaints in 2021 that were never served, and how a judge sentences four defendants with wildly different levels of alleged culpability. Tony Brueski, Robin, and Eric Faddis break it all down live.—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.#SidersFamily #ElizabethSiders #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #Ohio #16Kids #ChildEndangerment #GalliaCounty #VintonCounty

An eighteen-year-old went to Horn Island with friends. He never came back. And before the investigation was complete, one of those friends appeared on national television and then sat down with a national magazine to tell his version of what happened. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis weighs in on whether that decision helps the truth or buries it — and what it costs when a witness starts building a public record of statements while the evidence is still being processed.All three friends lawyered up. The family has Ben Crump and a full parallel investigation running — their own autopsy, their own phone forensics, private investigators pulling dozens of witness calls a day. Crump has pointed to one detail that cuts through everything else: the friends had Nolan's phone and keys and didn't tell investigators. The family had to track the phone using Life360 and go get it themselves.Faddis breaks down the behavior of every party in the case through a former prosecutor's lens. What the friends should be doing if they're innocent. What the family's shadow investigation means for the official one. And what the Lauren Agee case — where friends invoked the Fifth Amendment in civil depositions after no criminal charges — tells us about what everyone connected to this case should be preparing for. Tony Brueski, Robin, and Eric Faddis break it all down live.—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.#NolanWells #HornIsland #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #OceanSprings #Mississippi #JusticeForNolan #Investigation #FourthOfJuly

Although Kouri Richins is serving life without the possibility of parole, her conviction does not by itself eliminate her capacity to communicate or attempt to influence others from custody. This look back, with former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis, examines what an incarcerated convicted murderer can realistically do, and the legal mechanisms available to restrict it.The question is grounded in the record. In a message that appeared in the prosecution's sentencing filing, Richins stated she would expose those connected to her case and indicated her efforts were not concluded. Prosecutors have also alleged she authored a jail communication intended to shape a relative's testimony, and her oldest son expressed fear for his safety should she be released. Faddis outlines the avenues that remain available to an inmate — correspondence, monitored telephone access, third-party intermediaries, and outside supporters — and the corresponding restrictions: no-contact orders, protective orders, and corrections-administered limitations, distinguishing the function and reach of each.We revisit where the matter stood at the time of our reporting. It should be noted that the defense characterized the prosecution's sentencing memorandum as unreliable and, in part, false, and that an appeal and a motion for a new trial have been signaled. The segment treats the witness-intimidation allegations as allegations and focuses on the procedural reality: a custodial sentence constrains freedom of movement, but containing communication and influence requires separate, deliberate legal tools.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/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.#KouriRichins #EricRichins #EricFaddis #LifeWithoutParole #UtahMurder #TrueCrime #ProtectiveOrders #CorrectionsLaw #WitnessIntimidation #HiddenKillers

A life sentence without parole keeps Kouri Richins in prison — but it doesn't automatically keep her silent. This look back, with former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis, examines what a convicted killer can still reach beyond the walls, and the legal machinery designed to stop her.The concern isn't abstract. Before sentencing, Kouri wrote a message that landed in the prosecution's filing, vowing to expose nearly everyone connected to her case and warning they hadn't "seen anything yet." Prosecutors say she previously wrote a jail letter aimed at influencing a relative's testimony. Her own oldest son told the court he's afraid she'll come for him if she's ever released. Against that backdrop, Faddis walks through the real avenues that remain open to an inmate — mail, monitored calls, proxies, and the supporters who believe in her innocence and might act on her behalf.He then breaks down the tools that exist to contain her: no-contact orders, protective orders, and corrections-level restrictions, explaining what each accomplishes and where each falls short. We revisit where the case stood at the time of our reporting, noting that her defense has challenged the prosecution's sentencing memo as misleading and that an appeal is planned. This is a grounded, practical look at a hard truth — incarceration ends her freedom, not necessarily her reach.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/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.#KouriRichins #EricRichins #EricFaddis #LifeWithoutParole #FentanylMurder #UtahMurder #TrueCrime #ProtectiveOrders #WitnessIntimidation #HiddenKillers

It sounds like a legal thriller, but it's real. Rex Heuermann confessed to eight murders during family sessions run by Allison Winter, a counselor now facing eighteen felonies for allegedly practicing without a license and billing insurance for more than sixty thousand dollars. Legal analyst Eric Faddis lays out why that detail could give Heuermann's defense a genuine argument on appeal, even though undoing a guilty plea is far harder than winning after a trial verdict.Faddis breaks down the privilege fight too, whether confidentiality still protects sessions with someone who wasn't actually licensed, and what that could mean for everything Heuermann said behind those walls.From there we move to the D4VD case, where a status conference and a new Hulu documentary landed at nearly the same moment in the death of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Faddis explains why the documentary's confident, on-camera commentary from an LAPD detective and the district attorney could actually help the defense during jury selection, and why moving the trial out of California could genuinely be on the table. We also dig into the purchase history investigators have flagged, chainsaws, a burn box, bags, and what Faddis says it suggests about how many people may have been involved, with the preliminary hearing set for the twenty-first.Every time one of these cases looks buttoned up, a new thread pulls it back open. We cover all three.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.#RexHeuermann #D4VD #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #AllisonWinter #CelesteRivasHernandez #AppealTheory #TrueCrimeNews #LegalAnalysis #PreliminaryHearing

 Rex Heuermann confessed to eight murders in front of his own family, in sessions run by a counselor who had no legal right to be there. Allison Winter now faces eighteen felonies for allegedly posing as a licensed clinical social worker and billing insurance for more than sixty thousand dollars while treating Heuermann for nearly three years. Legal analyst Eric Faddis joins us to explain why that detail might matter more than anyone expected.Faddis walks through a theory his team believes could carry real weight: Heuermann pled guilty, in part, to keep his wife and daughter off the witness stand. If the confession that drove that decision came from a deceptive setup, does the entire foundation of the plea come into question? We also break down the privilege fight, whether confidentiality still applies when the person hearing your confession wasn't actually who she claimed to be.From there we pivot to the D4VD case, where a status conference and a new Hulu documentary landed almost simultaneously in the death of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Faddis breaks down why an LAPD detective and the district attorney appearing on camera could open both of them up to tough cross-examination, and why the defense may push hard on whether a fair trial is possible after this level of exposure. We also cover the purchase history investigators have flagged and what it suggests about who else may have been involved, with the preliminary hearing now set for the twenty-first.Every time one of these cases looks settled, something new pulls a thread loose.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.#RexHeuermann #D4VD #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #AllisonWinter #CelesteRivasHernandez #LegalAnalysis #TrueCrimeCommunity #CriminalCase #GuiltyPleaAppeal

 It sounds like a legal thriller, but it's real. Rex Heuermann confessed to eight murders during family sessions run by a woman with no license to be in the room, and now that detail might give his defense something to work with. Legal analyst Eric Faddis lays out the theory: Heuermann may have pled guilty in large part to spare his ex-wife and daughter from testifying about that confession, and if the confession itself was obtained through a fraudulent setup, the reasoning behind the plea could be challenged.Faddis is careful to note this wouldn't be an easy win. Undoing a guilty plea is far harder than winning an appeal after a trial verdict, but he calls it a creative avenue worth watching. From there, the conversation turns to privilege. Does confidentiality still protect conversations with someone who wasn't actually a licensed therapist? Faddis breaks down both sides of that fight, the government likely arguing the protection only covers real clinicians, the defense arguing it protects the patient regardless of the other person's paperwork.We also dig into the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine, and why it probably doesn't apply here since Winter wasn't a government employee acting on the state's behalf. Every time this case looks buttoned up, a new thread pulls it back open, and this might be one of the more consequential ones yet.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.#RexHeuermann #AllisonWinter #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #GilgoBeach #AppealTheory #SuffolkCounty #TrueCrimeNews #LegalAnalysis #CriminalCase

The chainsaws alone would be enough to make headlines. Add a burn box, bags, and a status conference that just wrapped, and you've got the D4VD case heating up right as a new Hulu documentary lands online, digging into the alleged relationship that led to fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez's death. Legal analyst Eric Faddis joins us to break down what happened behind closed doors at the latest hearing and how this documentary could reshape the road to trial.Faddis explains why the defense's biggest fight right now may not even be about the evidence itself, but about whether D4VD can get a fair trial anywhere in California after this level of exposure. We look at who appears in the documentary, an LAPD detective and the district attorney, both speaking with what Faddis calls striking certainty about evidence that hasn't been tested in court yet. He walks through why that could become a real problem for the prosecution once cross-examination begins.We also unpack the purchase history investigators have flagged and what it suggests about how many people may have been involved in what happened to Celeste, along with what investigators reportedly recovered from D4VD's phone. Faddis calls it some of the most damaging material in the case, assuming it holds up. With the preliminary hearing scheduled for the twenty-first, we break down what a defense win there would actually look like, and how rare that outcome really is.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.#D4VD #CelesteRivasHernandez #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #PreliminaryHearing #HuluDocumentary #TrueCrimeNews #LegalAnalysis #CriminalCase #JurySelection

Rex Heuermann's guilty plea may hinge on a conversation that never should have happened the way it did. His ex-wife and daughter were in the room when he confessed to eight murders, in sessions facilitated by Allison Winter — the counselor now charged with practicing without a license. Legal analyst Eric Faddis lays out a theory that could shape what happens next: if Heuermann pled guilty in part to spare his family from testifying about that confession, and the confession itself was obtained by someone posing as a licensed clinician, does that change everything about why he entered the plea in the first place.Faddis walks through the argument step by step. Heuermann's team could claim he wouldn't have pled guilty if he'd known the person hearing his confession wasn't legally who she claimed to be. It's a creative legal theory, and Faddis is upfront that success on appeal is far from guaranteed. From there, the conversation shifts to privilege. Does confidentiality protect a conversation with someone who turns out not to be a real therapist? Faddis breaks down the tension between two positions: the government arguing the protection only applies to licensed professionals, and the defense arguing it protects the patient's reasonable expectation regardless of the other person's credentials.We also dig into whether any of this constitutes fruit of the poisonous tree, and why that particular doctrine likely doesn't apply since Winter was never a government actor. Every time this case seems settled, something new complicates it further.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.#RexHeuermann #AllisonWinter #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #GilgoBeach #GuiltyPleaAppeal #SuffolkCounty #TrueCrimeCommunity #CriminalCase #LegalAnalysis