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Forensic psychologist Kirk Heilbrun took the stand for the prosecution to prove Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible for killing her three children. He told the jury it was a serious suicide attempt accompanied by killing the children out of love. He said Clancy retained moral awareness — but his own language characterized the motive as love, not deliberate cruelty.A second prosecution expert, forensic psychiatrist Gregory Saathoff, agreed on the stand that the prosecution's own opening statement minimized what Clancy had endured. Saathoff also pointed to inconsistencies in Clancy's account of the command hallucination she described — including that the voice appeared for the first time on the day of the killings and stopped the moment the children were dead.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski as the jury deliberates. They see this case very differently and get into where the prosecution landed after four weeks of testimony and closing arguments.Sprague told the jury Clancy planned it, calculated the window, and made a rational choice. She called the children broken toys left on the basement floor.The jury — nine women and three men — deliberated for three and a half hours on day one with no 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 #TrueCrimeToday #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #VerdictWatch #ClosingArguments #MurderTrial #MaternalMentalHealth
Mental health conditions are now the leading killer of new mothers in the United States. The CDC puts the number at nearly twenty-three percent of all pregnancy-related deaths, ahead of hemorrhage, ahead of heart failure. Over eighty percent were preventable. One in five mothers gets screened for depression after delivery.Those numbers sit behind the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy at Plymouth Superior Court. Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, killed her three young children at their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023, less than three weeks after being released from a psychiatric facility. Prosecutors and her defense team agree she was mentally ill. The jury is weighing whether she was too ill to understand her actions.Her defense rests on postpartum psychosis, a psychiatric emergency affecting roughly one to two mothers per thousand births. Despite the name, clinicians describe it as a mood disorder that arrives fast and disguises itself as ordinary postpartum fatigue. Bipolar history and prior episodes are the clearest warning signs, both screenable before delivery. With early treatment the acute crisis resolves in weeks.Forensic psychiatrist Phillip Resnick testified for Clancy's defense. He also testified for Andrea Yates, who drowned her five children in 2001 and was ultimately found not guilty by reason of insanity. Meghan Cliffel, a postpartum psychosis survivor from 2015, questions why the system waits for dead children before it pays attention.END_LINKS: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/tonybpodDISCLAIMER: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 #LindsayClancyTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #HiddenKillers #MaternalMentalHealth #PostpartumDepression #TrueCrime #MentalHealthAwareness #LindsayClancyVerdict #PlymouthSuperiorCourt
The prosecution's own forensic psychologist Kirk Heilbrun told the jury Lindsay Clancy killed her children out of love — a serious suicide attempt where she could not bear to leave them behind. Heilbrun said she was criminally responsible, but his characterization of the motive cut against the prosecution's theory of premeditated cruelty.Forensic psychiatrist Gregory Saathoff, also testifying for the prosecution, agreed under questioning that the state's opening statement minimized what Clancy had been going through. Saathoff found what he called significant inconsistencies in Clancy's account of the voice she says commanded the killings.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski live as the jury deliberates. They disagree on this case and dig into whether the prosecution can convict when its own experts softened the case on the stand.Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague told the jury Clancy planned it — mapped the distance to the restaurant, added the CVS stop, calculated the window. Sprague called the children protective factors Clancy removed so she could end her own life.Nine women and three men have five verdict options. They deliberated three and a half hours on day one.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 #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #VerdictWatch #ClosingArguments #HKLive #MaternalMentalHealth
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Nolan Wells died on Horn Island, Mississippi on July 4, and the sheriff's office ruled out foul play within two days, before the state autopsy was finished, before anyone official had opened his phone. Seven weeks later, that phone still hasn't been forensically examined. The device left the island with Nolan's friends. His mother retrieved it from them in the first days and, before any forensic protocol existed, went through it herself with her sister. Both of his Snapchat accounts were completely empty. On July 15, the family's lawyers and District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath agreed to a joint forensic exam at the Digital Forensics Lab at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, with both sides' experts and possibly the FBI in the room. No date was ever scheduled. Nearly a month passed before the DA's office sent a letter giving the family 48 hours to hand the phone over, while Nolan's parents were out of state. The three friends who were with Nolan that weekend handed their own phones directly to federal agents, no subpoena needed. The family still has Nolan's phone and says it's ready to go the moment there's a real chain-of-custody protocol in writing. Forensic examiners say deleted data can often be recovered from a device like this one, but platforms purge their own servers over time, and every week of delay narrows that window. No charges have been filed. The friends deny any tampering. The family has already subpoenaed Snapchat, Meta, TikTok, WhatsApp, and Life360 for the server-side records the phone itself can't hold. Tony Brueski breaks down how a sheriff's office reached a conclusion about Nolan Wells' death before the evidence that could confirm or contradict it was ever examined, and why that order of operations should bother everyone paying attention. Links & Legal Footer: Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags: #NolanWells #HornIslandSheriff #HiddenKillers #HornIsland #Mississippi #DigitalForensics #FoulPlay #JusticeForNolan #TrueCrime #GrandJury
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Nolan Wells' family says they've offered the district attorney four different dates, on twelve hours' notice, to forensically examine his phone. Seven weeks after Nolan died on Horn Island, Mississippi, no exam has happened. The phone came off the island with Nolan's friends and has been with his family since the first days after his death. Before any official protocol existed, his mother and her sister opened it themselves and went through both of his Snapchat accounts. They were completely empty. On July 15, the family's legal team and District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath agreed on paper to a joint exam at the Digital Forensics Lab at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, both sides' experts included, possibly the FBI too. No date got set. Then the DA's office sent a letter demanding the phone within 48 hours, while Nolan's parents were nowhere near Mississippi. Five days later, the family came back with four separate dates and twelve hours' notice each. Still nothing. Compare that to the three friends who were with Nolan that weekend: they handed their own phones straight to the FBI, no subpoena, no ultimatum, no back-and-forth. The family is asking for one thing before they do the same, a written chain-of-custody protocol that protects what's actually on that device. Forensic examiners say deleted messages can often be pulled from a phone like Nolan's, but the apps themselves purge data from their servers over time, and every week this drags on shrinks that window a little more. No one has been charged. The friends deny touching anything. The family has already subpoenaed Snapchat, Meta, TikTok, WhatsApp, and Life360 for the server-side records the phone alone can't provide. Tony Brueski walks through the paper trail, who offered what, who ignored it, and why a family that's tried this hard to cooperate is still holding a phone nobody official has opened. Links & Legal Footer: Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags: #NolanWells #AngelMyersMcIlrath #HiddenKillersLive #HornIsland #Mississippi #ChainOfCustody #DigitalForensics #JusticeForNolan #TrueCrime #NolanWellsPhone
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One comment on this channel says the doctors found no head injuries on Lindsay Clancy, which proves she never went out the window head-first, which proves the defense pathologist is lying. Two facts from the record, one wrong conclusion.Dr. Kelly McDonough of South Shore Hospital testified that CT scans showed no head injury. A defense medical expert testified to a C1 Jefferson fracture, a break in the top vertebra of the neck that happens when the skull drives down into the spine on impact. That's the injury you get landing on your head without fracturing the skull. The head-first fall is the defense's account; the slide down the shingles is the prosecution's. Both put her going out that window on her own.The same commenter heard about the voice only once. The record has it from the prosecution's first witness. Patrick Clancy testified Lindsay called him from her hospital bed on Feb. 6, 2023 and told him a voice had ordered her to kill the children and herself. Forensic psychologist Paul Zeizel was on speaker for that call. Chaplain Sheila Cavanaugh said Lindsay alluded to it several times across 14 visits. Dr. Phillip Resnick heard it. So did Dr. Avram Mack, the prosecution's rebuttal psychiatrist, who testified she told him it started the moment Patrick left for CVS. What prosecutors argue is that it doesn't appear in her records before Jan. 24.This is the first segment of Lindsay Clancy: Conspiracy and Confusion, five comments checked against sworn testimony. It covers the rope that appears in no exhibit, the blood on the window, the knife, the carotid search her own lawyer showed the jury, and whether Patrick fled. The record answers each one.END LINKSListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #LindsayClancyTrial #ClancyTrial #Duxbury #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrimePodcast #PlymouthSuperiorCourt
Day 19 of the Lindsay Clancy murder trial in Plymouth Superior Court, and the prosecution's rebuttal case fell apart in slow motion. Forensic psychologist Dr. Kirk Heilbrun called the postpartum psychosis defense "convenient," offered the clearest alternate theory yet, and then said the words "isn't suicide a mortal sin" in front of the jury. Kevin Reddington moved for a mistrial. Judge William Sullivan denied it and then reprimanded the prosecution anyway. The jury went home early. Closing arguments are Wednesday.But the story nobody is covering is the firm. Both of the Commonwealth's rebuttal experts were retained through Park Dietz and Associates, named for the psychiatrist whose false Law & Order testimony got Andrea Yates' conviction overturned in 2005. The defense's star witness on Friday was Dr. Phillip Resnick, who was the Yates defense expert. This trial is a rematch, and the two prosecution experts cannot even agree on what is wrong with Lindsay Clancy.IN THIS EPISODEReddington takes apart Dr. Avram Mack on the DSM's four week postpartum window, the WHO's different standard, and the proposed six week revision. "Postpartum is not a disease, doctor." Mack admits it is roughly the third time in his career he has testified on criminal responsibility, and that he has treated about ten women with postpartum psychosis since 2001. On cross he concedes that blood work and thyroid testing should have been done, and as far as he can tell were not.Then the firm. Park Dietz and Associates, the Andrea Yates conviction reversal, the joint evaluation at Tewksbury, and why "two independent experts" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.Then Heilbrun. His testing found no malingering and a slight tendency to underreport symptoms. He diagnosed bipolar II, which splits the Commonwealth's own two experts. He offered "suicide combined with altruistic filicide" as the alternate theory, a theory in which love is the motive. He attacked the 18 minute voice on three fronts. And he used the word "convenient."Then the mistrial. "Intentional misconduct," Sullivan's instruction from the bench, and the second time religion has entered this trial through the prosecution's door.SOURCESBoston Globe, CBS Boston, ABC News, Boston 25 News, CNN, Fox News Digital, Court TV, and archival reporting from the Washington Post, NBC News and Psychiatric News on the 2005 Andrea Yates reversal.IF YOU NEED ITNational Maternal Mental Health Hotline: call or text 1-833-TLC-MAMA. Free, confidential, 24/7.988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: call or text 988.Keywords: Lindsay Clancy trial, Duxbury Massachusetts, Plymouth Superior Court, postpartum psychosis, insanity defense, Kirk Heilbrun, Avram Mack, Kevin Reddington, Judge William Sullivan, Park Dietz, Andrea Yates, altruistic filicide, true crime podcast, trial coverageBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support.Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.comPatreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevilRobin's Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/robin_wstdTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevilInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast.TikTok: tiktok.com/@wesawthedevilpolitics
Two prosecution rebuttal experts took the stand in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial and agreed on one thing: she wasn't psychotic. They disagreed on nearly everything else, including her diagnosis.Forensic psychologist Kirk Heilbrun scored Clancy's account of hearing a commanding male voice against clinical benchmarks and found three indicators pointing toward fabrication. No accompanying delusions. No attempt to stop it. And an auditory experience that appeared for eighteen minutes during the killings and was never reported before or after. Approximately 88 percent of genuine command hallucinations come with delusions. Clancy reported none.Heilbrun's theory for why she killed Cora, Dawson, and Callan landed harder than any clinical finding. He called it "suicide combined with altruistic filicide" — a mother who planned to end her own life and took her children with her because she was convinced they would suffer without her. When Patrick asked what happened, she didn't mention a voice. She said she tried to kill herself.The day ended early after the prosecution's own witness raised Clancy's Catholic upbringing and asked her about mortal sin — the second time in eight days faith entered the trial through the prosecution's side. Judge Sullivan denied a defense mistrial motion but sent the jury home. Closing arguments are expected Wednesday.END_LINKSListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #DuxburyMassachusetts #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #InsanityDefense #MaternalMentalHealth #TrueCrimeToday
The prosecution's own rebuttal witness may have handed the defense some of its strongest material yet in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. Forensic psychologist Dr. Kirk Heilbrun testified Monday about the months before Clancy allegedly strangled her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023 in Duxbury, Massachusetts. Clancy, 34, faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and her attorney Kevin Reddington is arguing severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.Heilbrun began with a lesson in retention bias — the pull toward favoring whoever's paying for the evaluation — then detailed the scope of his own work: about 180 hours combing through police, medical, and court records plus surveillance footage, 10.5 hours testing and meeting with Clancy directly, and 1.5 hours of collateral interviews. His timeline was specific. Limited medical history and mild anxiety before September 2022. Worsening anxiety and depression after October 2022. By December 2022, intrusive and unwelcome thoughts about self-harm and, at times, harming the children — thoughts, he clarified, not hallucinations.Then came the diagnostic contradiction: Heilbrun found no evidence in the records of mania or hypomania consistent with bipolar disorder, even though Tewksbury Hospital had Clancy diagnosed with bipolar disorder for three and a half years. His own conclusion was bipolar II. He closed by outlining the legal insanity standard — mental disease or defect, capacity to know right from wrong, and ability to control conduct. After the killings, Clancy allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window and is now paralyzed from the waist down. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court.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.#LindsayClancy #DuxburyTragedy #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #PlymouthCounty #CoraDawsonCallan #InsanityDefense #KevinReddington #TrueCrimeToday #Breaking
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The family agreed. The DA agreed. A joint forensic examination of Nolan Wells' phone at the Digital Forensics Lab at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. Both sides' experts in the room, possibly the FBI. Then a month went by without a date being set, and the DA sent a letter: hand over the phone in 48 hours.The phone had already been through civilian hands. Nolan's mother and her sister opened both Snapchat accounts before any forensic protocol existed and found them empty. Meanwhile, the three friends who were with Nolan on Horn Island turned over their own devices to the FBI without being asked twice.Forensic experts say the longer that phone sits unexamined, the more data Snapchat and WhatsApp purge from their servers. The state autopsy is sealed. A grand jury is supposedly reviewing the case. And the phone that might answer what happened on July 4 has not been touched by a single forensic tool.Eric Faddis, a defense attorney and former prosecutor, breaks down who is responsible for the collapsed deal and whether the evidence can still be recovered.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.#NolanWells #HornIsland #HiddenKillersPodcast #Snapchat #PhoneEvidence #Mississippi #GrandJury #DigitalForensics #TrueCrime #JusticeForNolan
In December 2010, 25-year-old landscape architect Joanna Yeates vanished after a night out in Clifton, Bristol. CCTV showed her buying a Tesco pizza on the way home but when detectives searched her flat, the pizza, its wrapping, and even the box were gone.Her body was found on Christmas Day. The case initially fixated on her landlord, Christopher Jefferies, who was later cleared and formally acknowledged by police as completely innocent.The real killer was Yeates's next-door neighbour, Dutch engineer Vincent Tabak. Forensic evidence linked him to Joanna's body, and prosecutors said he strangled her shortly after she arrived home before concealing and disposing of her body. He was convicted of murder in 2011 and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 20 years.
The defense in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial called its first four witnesses on Tuesday in Plymouth Superior Court. After the prosecution rested with seventy-two witnesses across fourteen days, the defense began building its insanity case in a single afternoon.Lindsay Clancy is charged with three counts of murder for the deaths of her three children on January 24, 2023. She has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.Susan Clancy, Lindsay's mother-in-law and a labor-and-delivery nurse practitioner for thirty-eight years, told the jury Lindsay was a wonderful mother who was begging for help. On cross-examination, the prosecutor revealed that Lindsay told her therapists she was not close with her in-laws and did not generally allow them to watch the children.Forensic psychiatrist Donald Condie testified that Lindsay went through more than thirteen medication changes in four months after her youngest son was born. He called her medical records somewhat sparse and said one doctor who cleared her for outpatient treatment twenty-three days before the deaths had never treated a single patient with postpartum psychosis.Psychologist Paul Zeizel has visited Lindsay forty-five times at the hospital where she remains paralyzed from a fall through a second-story window. He testified that Lindsay told her husband Patrick she heard a male voice telling her she had no choice. If the jury believes the voice was real, the insanity defense stands. The prosecution asked whether Zeizel suggested she fabricate the claim.The prosecutor held up an exercise band in front of the jury to demonstrate the force required in the deaths of the three children.Court resumes Wednesday with the cross-examination of Paul Zeizel. Over two hundred witnesses are expected before the trial concludes.END LINKSListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/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.HASHTAGS#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #InsanityDefense #PlymouthCourt #DuxburyMA #MentalHealth #PatrickClancy
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The defense in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial called its first four witnesses on Tuesday in Plymouth Superior Court. After the prosecution rested with seventy-two witnesses across fourteen days, the defense began building its insanity case in a single afternoon.Lindsay Clancy is charged with three counts of murder for the deaths of her three children on January 24, 2023. She has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.Susan Clancy, Lindsay's mother-in-law and a labor-and-delivery nurse practitioner for thirty-eight years, told the jury Lindsay was a wonderful mother who was begging for help. On cross-examination, the prosecutor revealed that Lindsay told her therapists she was not close with her in-laws and did not generally allow them to watch the children.Forensic psychiatrist Donald Condie testified that Lindsay went through more than thirteen medication changes in four months after her youngest son was born. He called her medical records somewhat sparse and said one doctor who cleared her for outpatient treatment twenty-three days before the deaths had never treated a single patient with postpartum psychosis.Psychologist Paul Zeizel has visited Lindsay forty-five times at the hospital where she remains paralyzed from a fall through a second-story window. He testified that Lindsay told her husband Patrick she heard a male voice telling her she had no choice. If the jury believes the voice was real, the insanity defense stands. The prosecution asked whether Zeizel suggested she fabricate the claim.The prosecutor held up an exercise band in front of the jury to demonstrate the force required in the deaths of the three children.Court resumes Wednesday with the cross-examination of Paul Zeizel. Over two hundred witnesses are expected before the trial concludes.END LINKSListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/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.HASHTAGS#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #InsanityDefense #PlymouthCourt #DuxburyMA #MentalHealth #PatrickClancy
Recently, a YouTube science channel discussed five different forensic disciplines and explored potential issues with each. Eric Ray and Glenn Langenburg react to the video and share their perspectives as forensic scientists from valid criticisms to misunderstandings. Have we really been "Using The Wrong Science In Court For 50 years"? Watch the full original video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvcesPWvUIc
Forensic psychologist Dr. Kris Mohandie argued that the plea agreement that spared Bryan Kohberger from the death penalty was fundamentally flawed because prosecutors never required him to give a detailed account of how or why he killed Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. Kohberger pleaded guilty in July 2025 and received four consecutive life sentences without parole, plus an additional 10 years, but in July 2026 he filed for post-conviction relief claiming ineffective assistance of counsel, alleging that he had been misled and again asserting his innocence. Mohandie said prosecutors should have forced Kohberger to commit to a complete version of events before accepting the plea, even if they suspected he would lie. Without that confession, Mohandie argued, Kohberger was left with room to later claim that he had been coerced, poorly represented or never truly admitted to the underlying facts of the murders. In his view, the plea deal gave prosecutors finality on paper but failed to extract the kind of detailed admission that could now be used to confront Kohberger's changing claims.Mohandie also criticized the deal for the renewed emotional toll it was placing on the victims' families, arguing that the post-conviction proceedings were forcing them back into a case they had been told was effectively over. He characterized Kohberger's latest legal maneuvering as consistent with what he viewed as a desire to outsmart the system, maintain notoriety and continue controlling the narrative around himself. Mohandie pointed in particular to Kohberger's handwritten petition and his decision to contact a reporter from prison before filing it as evidence that he continued to seek attention even after conviction. He described Kohberger as someone who believed he was smarter and more exceptional than others, while cautioning against treating convicted killers as fascinating or uniquely brilliant figures. The larger criticism was that prosecutors had an opportunity during the plea negotiations to pin Kohberger to a specific account of the murders and failed to do so, leaving an opening for exactly the kind of post-conviction challenge now unfolding.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:Bryan Kohberger's plea deal was a mistake, says renowned forensic psychologist | Fox News
Forensic psychologist Dr. Kris Mohandie argued that the plea agreement that spared Bryan Kohberger from the death penalty was fundamentally flawed because prosecutors never required him to give a detailed account of how or why he killed Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. Kohberger pleaded guilty in July 2025 and received four consecutive life sentences without parole, plus an additional 10 years, but in July 2026 he filed for post-conviction relief claiming ineffective assistance of counsel, alleging that he had been misled and again asserting his innocence. Mohandie said prosecutors should have forced Kohberger to commit to a complete version of events before accepting the plea, even if they suspected he would lie. Without that confession, Mohandie argued, Kohberger was left with room to later claim that he had been coerced, poorly represented or never truly admitted to the underlying facts of the murders. In his view, the plea deal gave prosecutors finality on paper but failed to extract the kind of detailed admission that could now be used to confront Kohberger's changing claims.Mohandie also criticized the deal for the renewed emotional toll it was placing on the victims' families, arguing that the post-conviction proceedings were forcing them back into a case they had been told was effectively over. He characterized Kohberger's latest legal maneuvering as consistent with what he viewed as a desire to outsmart the system, maintain notoriety and continue controlling the narrative around himself. Mohandie pointed in particular to Kohberger's handwritten petition and his decision to contact a reporter from prison before filing it as evidence that he continued to seek attention even after conviction. He described Kohberger as someone who believed he was smarter and more exceptional than others, while cautioning against treating convicted killers as fascinating or uniquely brilliant figures. The larger criticism was that prosecutors had an opportunity during the plea negotiations to pin Kohberger to a specific account of the murders and failed to do so, leaving an opening for exactly the kind of post-conviction challenge now unfolding.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:Bryan Kohberger's plea deal was a mistake, says renowned forensic psychologist | Fox NewsBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.
It's taken Toronto Police more than 20 years to charge a suspect in the murder of Patrick Santos, a 21 year old Scarborough man that was found zip-tied and duck taped in his home in 2006. Investigative genetic genealogy was able to match the DNA sample taken from the crime scene to that of Pierre O'Connor, a Hamilton man who had no previous criminal record. Host Maria Kestane speaks to Fil Martino, co-host of Tracking a killer, to dig into the details of the 20 year-old cold case. Then she's joined by Steen Hartsen, a faculty member of the British Columbia Institute of Technology to learn more about genetic genealogy - including its ethical risks. Listen to Tracking A Killer here. We love feedback at The Big Story, as well as suggestions for future episodes. You can find us:Through email at hello@thebigstorypodcast.ca Or @thebigstory.bsky.social on Bluesky Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Forensic psychologist Dr. Kris Mohandie argued that the plea agreement that spared Bryan Kohberger from the death penalty was fundamentally flawed because prosecutors never required him to give a detailed account of how or why he killed Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. Kohberger pleaded guilty in July 2025 and received four consecutive life sentences without parole, plus an additional 10 years, but in July 2026 he filed for post-conviction relief claiming ineffective assistance of counsel, alleging that he had been misled and again asserting his innocence. Mohandie said prosecutors should have forced Kohberger to commit to a complete version of events before accepting the plea, even if they suspected he would lie. Without that confession, Mohandie argued, Kohberger was left with room to later claim that he had been coerced, poorly represented or never truly admitted to the underlying facts of the murders. In his view, the plea deal gave prosecutors finality on paper but failed to extract the kind of detailed admission that could now be used to confront Kohberger's changing claims.Mohandie also criticized the deal for the renewed emotional toll it was placing on the victims' families, arguing that the post-conviction proceedings were forcing them back into a case they had been told was effectively over. He characterized Kohberger's latest legal maneuvering as consistent with what he viewed as a desire to outsmart the system, maintain notoriety and continue controlling the narrative around himself. Mohandie pointed in particular to Kohberger's handwritten petition and his decision to contact a reporter from prison before filing it as evidence that he continued to seek attention even after conviction. He described Kohberger as someone who believed he was smarter and more exceptional than others, while cautioning against treating convicted killers as fascinating or uniquely brilliant figures. The larger criticism was that prosecutors had an opportunity during the plea negotiations to pin Kohberger to a specific account of the murders and failed to do so, leaving an opening for exactly the kind of post-conviction challenge now unfolding.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:Bryan Kohberger's plea deal was a mistake, says renowned forensic psychologist | Fox NewsBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-moscow-murders-and-more--5852883/support.
In 1999 a father named Henry Masuka walked into St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto carrying his infant son through an asthma attack and walked out into a police shooting that ended his life. This episode traces the desperate arithmetic of a parent facing a locked door between his child and care, the systemic wait times that turned panic into crisis, and the strange cultural echo that later linked this tragedy to a Hollywood film. We sit with the psychology of threat perception, institutional failure, and the myth of the reasonable man under pressure.
In this episode, leading forensic criminologist Dr. Eric Hickey joins us to analyze the psychopathological profile and behavioral mechanics of Roger Kibbe, the I-5 Strangler. We examine how underlying sexual sadism, fantasy ritualization, and paraphilic fixations drive repetitive violence and victim selection along transport corridors. Through clinical analysis of offender motivation, power-control dynamics, and post-arrest behavioral patterns, we uncover the psychological signatures that separate opportunistic predators from methodical, high-rate serial killers.
A theory had suggested that Madison Mogen may have been Bryan Kohberger's intended target when he entered the King Road residence and murdered Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. Forensic psychologist Dr. Gary Brucato argued that the attack appeared to have been driven by a violent psychosexual fantasy rather than a plan to kill everyone inside the house. Brucato believed Kohberger had gone directly to Mogen's third-floor bedroom expecting to find her alone, only to discover that Goncalves was sharing the bed with her that night. Under that theory, Goncalves became an unexpected victim because she had interrupted the scenario Kohberger had allegedly imagined.Brucato pointed to the location of the first attack, the victims' injuries and Kohberger's apparent familiarity with the house as support for his interpretation. He theorized that the killings of Kernodle and Chapin followed after Kohberger encountered people who could identify him or interfere with his escape, turning an allegedly targeted attack into a four-person massacre. However, authorities had never publicly established a motive or confirmed that Mogen, Goncalves or any other individual had been specifically targeted. The theory remained an expert's interpretation of the available evidence rather than a proven conclusion about why Kohberger committed the murders.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-moscow-murders-and-more--5852883/support.
A deposition can put a business valuation expert in the hot seat, where every answer is tested and every assumption may be challenged. In this episode, we discuss how depositions differ from other professional interactions, what effective preparation looks like, and how experts can work with counsel, handle challenging questioning, and maintain credibility under oath. Key takeaways A deposition is adversarial by design — you're answering questions, not telling your story. Preparation starts the day the subpoena arrives. You're there for numbers, not emotions. Continue reading to learn about key resources available at AICPA-CIMA.com to improve your valuation analyses. Guest: Dan Branch, CPA/ABV, ASA, IAG Forensics & Valuation Host: Gregory Saunders, CPA/ABV/CFF, ASA, Keiter CPAs If you're using a podcast app that does not hyperlink to the resources, please visit our podcast platform to access the show notes with direct links. Thanks for listening. We'd welcome your feedback at https://www.aicpa-cima.com/podcastsurvey or contact us directly at podcast@aicpa-cima.com. RESOURCES FOR FURTHER EXPLORATION Take your expert witness skills to the next level at the AICPA Expert Witness Skills Workshop, Sep 14-16, 2026, Washington, DC, a hands-on, courtroom-style experience featuring case studies, practice sessions, and a live mock trial, with enrollment limited to just 18 participants to ensure personalized coaching from judges, attorneys, and seasoned experts. At the 2026 Forensic and Valuation Services Conference - B2 hour workshop, Becoming an Effective Expert Witness: Practical Skills for Emerging Professionals (for in-person attendees). Sharpen your expert witness skills through realistic deposition, arbitration, and courtroom scenarios that help you prepare, communicate effectively, and avoid common credibility pitfalls. Early bird savings through Sept 20 plus additional savings for AICPA members and ABV/CFF/CVFI holders Join: The FVS Engage365 Member Community to collaborate with fellow AICPA® members, exchange ideas, and shape the future of the profession together. Early career guidance: Welcome to a career in forensic and valuation services FVS Practice Aid Library: This library is open to all visitors. Access to and download of the full practice aids is an exclusive benefit of FVS Section membership. AICPA Statement on Standards for Forensic Services (SSFS No. 1) Click here to join the AICPA FVS Section An active community of FVS peers. You will get 16 credits of complimentary CPE and access to exclusivetechnical content Serving as an Expert Witness or Consultant — FVS Practice Aid Two perspectives on the path to becoming an FVS expert for litigation FVS Valuation Podcast archives: From Analysis to Testimony: Key Skills for a Career in Forensic and Valuation Services Expert Witness - Defending your Business Valuation in Litigation Implementing AI in your Valuation Practice LEARN MORE ABOUT THE FOLLOWING AICPA CREDENTIALS: Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV®) – Visit the home page and check out the ABV infographic Certified in the Valuation of Financial Instruments (CVFI®) – Visit the home page and check out the CVFI infographic Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF®) - Visit the home page and check out the CFF infographic
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A South Shore Hospital surgeon took the stand at Plymouth Superior Court and told the jury that Lindsay Clancy's wrist and neck injuries on the night she allegedly killed her three children were superficial. The cuts went through skin and exposed fat but didn't reach muscles, arteries, or tendons. The prosecution needed that testimony to support their argument that Clancy's attempt on her own life wasn't real. Then Clancy's defense attorney Kevin Reddington revealed something the surgeon never knew — her patient's heart had stopped at Brigham and Women's Hospital and she required massive blood transfusions to survive.The rest of Day 6 centered on prescription evidence. Thirteen bottles were presented to the jury, most nearly full. Prosecutors argued Clancy wasn't taking her medications. The defense showed all thirteen were prescribed in a three-week span. Forensic scientists confirmed five psychiatric drugs in Clancy's blood — mirtazapine, lamotrigine, quetiapine, trazodone, and benzodiazepines — and confirmed the absence of any recreational or illicit substances. Post-mortem results on Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, eight months, showed nothing in their systems. Clancy also spoke in court for the first time, agreeing to stipulations that concede all physical evidence and narrow the trial entirely to her mental state.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.#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #PostpartumPsychosis #DuxburyMA #CriminalTrial #TrueCrimeToday #JusticeForCora
Lindsay Clancy spoke in court for the first time during her trial and personally agreed to a broad stipulation covering important parts of the Commonwealth's forensic case. That was not a guilty plea, and it did not abandon her defense. It simply means prosecutors will not spend days proving evidence the defense does not seriously dispute. In this episode, I look at what Lindsay agreed to, what we learned from the medical, medication, journal and bloodstain testimony on Monday and Tuesday, and how both sides are moving toward the real question in this trial: Was Lindsay criminally responsible when she killed Cora, Dawson and Callan, or did severe mental illness leave her unable to understand the wrongfulness of her actions or control her conduct?#LindsayClancy #CoraClancy #DawsonClancy #CallanClancy #PatrickClancy #Duxbury #Massachusetts #PostpartumPsychosis #MentalHealth #TrueCrime #Court #ProfilingEvil========================================20% OFF Newspapers.comhttps://www.newspapers.com/go/podcast/?ref=profilingevil?xid=8877&utm_source=ProfilingEvilPodcast&utm_medium=podcst&utm_campaign=ProfilingEvil26========================================Discounts on eBikes: https://aipasbike.com/?ref=PROFILINGEVILReferral Coupon Code: PROFILINGEVIL========================================Email your questions to: ProfilingEvil@gmail.com========================================
It's the crossover episode forensic nurses have been waiting for as Kalen Knight and Karen Carroll join the ENA Podcast to talk about their excitement for hosting new episodes of the Forensic Nursing: Beyond the Evidence podcast and what you can expect when the show debuts later this month. Check out the Forensic Nursing: Beyond the Evidence podcast archives: https://bit.ly/4wPKTfN Learn more about forensic nursing at ENA: https://bit.ly/4yYSDh2
This episode explores the psychological profile and behavioral motivations of Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, analyzing how grandiosity, ideological radicalization, and anti-social traits fused to create one of history's most notorious militants. Through the lens of forensic analysis, we examine the dynamic shift from his early operations with the PFLP to his later self-aggrandizing campaign of mercenary violence. The narrative dissects how severe narcissistic features, externalization of blame, and the psychological impact of decades spent as a global fugitive ultimately shaped his trial behavior and lifetime incarceration in France.
Two witnesses with very different vantage points took the stand this week in the Lindsay Clancy trial — one clinical, one procedural, both consequential. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation over the deaths of her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 7 months — who prosecutors allege she strangled with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She's pleaded not guilty, and her attorney, Kevin Reddington, is arguing an insanity defense centered on severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.Sgt. Robert Flynn of the Duxbury Police Department testified he was present when State Police executed the search warrant at the home, and told the court there was no damage to the window or screen — a detail that's going to matter a great deal to anyone tracking the physical evidence around Clancy's alleged fall. Flynn confirmed State Police took over the investigation after that.Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Jhilam Biswas described her initial assessment of Clancy, focused on evaluating her safety and state of mind. Biswas told the court psychosis symptoms present differently from person to person, but said that during the roughly 20 minutes she communicated with Clancy, she observed no signs of active psychosis.Clancy is accused of attempting suicide after the killings, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial is underway in Plymouth Superior Court and is expected to run several weeks.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimerThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags#LindsayClancy #DuxburyTragedy #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #PlymouthCounty #CoraDawsonCallan #InsanityDefense #KevinReddington #TrueCrimeToday #Breaking
Forensic testimony took center stage this week in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation. She's pleaded not guilty, with attorney Kevin Reddington building an insanity defense around severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.Maureen Hartnett, a technician with the Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab, told the court about the evidence she collected both at the Summer Street home and directly from Lindsay Clancy — including blood evidence drawn from the defendant. This is the kind of testimony that rarely trends, but it's the scaffolding underneath everything the toxicologists and experts will say later. Every claim about what was or wasn't in Clancy's system traces back to a moment like this one — someone in gloves, logging a sample, starting a chain of custody nobody can afford to break.Prosecutors Jennifer Sprague and Shanan Buckingham are methodically assembling that chain. After the killings, Clancy allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window and remains paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan, where he's spoken publicly about her mental health. The trial continues before Judge William F. Sullivan in Plymouth Superior Court and is expected to run several more weeks.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer: 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 #DuxburyTragedy #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #PlymouthCounty #CoraDawsonCallan #InsanityDefense #KevinReddington #ForensicEvidence #TrueCrimeToday
In this episode, Dr. Paige Wilcoxson joins us to discuss what people often get wrong about forensic psychology, what it takes and costs, and what the work helps us understand about ourselves, criminal behavior, and the world around us. Paige worked as a clinical and forensic psychologist in hospitals and prisons and as a graduate intern in the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, where she contributed to a project on serial homicides while working on her dissertation on threat assessment of ideologically motivated targeted shooters. Paige has also worked as a professor in the United States and the United Kingdom.Contact me at silverliningshandbookpod@gmail.comCheck out the Silver Linings Handbook website at:https://silverliningshandbook.com/Check out our Patreon to support the show at:https://www.patreon.com/thesilverliningshandbookJoin our Facebook Group at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1361159947820623Visit the Silver Linings Handbook store to support the podcast at:https://www.bonfire.com/store/the-silver-linings-handbook-podcast-storeVisit The True Crime Times Substack at:https://truecrimemessenger.substack.comThe Silver Linings Handbook podcast is a part of the ART19 network. ART19 is a subsidiary of Wondery and Amazon Music.See the Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and the California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Two elderly women in California befriended homeless men, housed them, and took out millions in life insurance policies naming themselves as beneficiaries. After waiting out the contestability periods, they staged the men's deaths as hit-and-run accidents. This is the story of Helen Golay, Olga Rutterschmidt, and the calculated killings of Paul Vados and Kenneth McDavid.
In this episode of Crime and the Courtroom, John Collins is joined by Julie Sikorsky and Dr. Pamela Marshall for an in-depth discussion on one of the most influential—and often least understood—positions in the forensic laboratory: the Technical Leader. Together, they explore how the role has evolved, why it has become essential to maintaining scientific excellence, and the unique challenges technical leaders face as they balance technical oversight, quality assurance, courtroom responsibilities, and the development of future forensic scientists. The conversation also examines the transition from bench scientist to leadership, the importance of mentorship, internships, and expert witness training, and how organizations can better prepare the next generation of technical leaders. The discussion also highlights exciting developments within the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors (ASCLD), including plans for a new Technical Leader Academy designed to strengthen leadership competencies across the forensic science community. Throughout the episode, Collins, Sikorsky, and Marshall share practical insights drawn from decades of experience in forensic laboratories, higher education, and organizational leadership. Whether you are an aspiring technical leader, an experienced laboratory manager, or simply interested in the future of forensic science, this conversation offers valuable perspectives on building technically strong, collaborative, and resilient forensic organizations. YOUTUBE CHANNELS Main Podcast Channel Highlights Channel REFERENCE LINKS None ABOUT YOUR HOST John Morrey Collins is a leadership and expertise coach specializing in working with clients in authoritative, high-stakes occupations, but with a primary emphasis on serving leaders, professionals, and organizations that support our complicated systems of criminal and civil justice. John started his private practice, Critical Victories, in 2013 after retiring his award-winning, 20-year career as a forensic laboratory scientist and executive administrator, having served as the Director of Forensic Science for the State of Michigan. His forensic technical expertise was in the examination and testing of firearms and firearm-related evidence, having provided expert courtroom testimony in approximately 130 criminal trials, including death penalty cases and Daubert hearings. John is also the author of three books on forensic science and criminal justice reform. In 2022, he released his fourth book, "The New Superior – A Better Way to Be the One in Charge," which is available in print and audio. John's many career highlights include his part in the forensic investigation of the Atlanta serial bombings, which included the bombing of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, as well as his 2013 participation in a historic meeting with the US Attorney General and other firearm experts to discuss the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. John has a master's degree in organizational management and is formally certified as a Senior HR Professional by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). In 2012, John was trained as a professional coach by the College of Executive Coaching, and he became certified as a Gallup Strengths Coach in 2022. He lives and works near Detroit, Michigan. For more books and other information, please visit www.criticalvictories.com.
Bryan Kohberger has never publicly explained why he murdered University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. By pleading guilty in July 2025, he avoided both the death penalty and a trial that might have exposed more evidence about his motive. Prosecutors said they found no proof of a sexual assault or a direct relationship between Kohberger and the victims, although his phone had connected to a cellular tower serving the area near their Moscow home several times before the killings. Kaylee's father, Steve Goncalves, disputed the prosecution's rejection of a sexual motive, claiming investigators had described disturbing material allegedly found on Kohberger's phone, but those claims have not been publicly verified.Experts have instead tried to infer motive from the attack itself. Forensic pathologist Mary Jumbelic said the extensive injuries inflicted on the three women appeared to show “overkill,” which can suggest rage, domination or a deeply personal psychological impulse, while the male victim was allegedly attacked differently. Digital investigators also said Kohberger's sparse online activity suggested he may have deliberately concealed his planning and interests. Ultimately, authorities said they found no definitive explanation for why he selected the house or its occupants, and Kohberger declined to speak at sentencing. His attempt to withdraw his guilty plea could potentially produce additional evidence if the case ever returned to court, but a former federal prosecutor interviewed by People predicted that his petition would be denied.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:Here's What Experts and Lawyers Have Said About Bryan Kohberger's Motive
Bryan Kohberger has never publicly explained why he murdered University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. By pleading guilty in July 2025, he avoided both the death penalty and a trial that might have exposed more evidence about his motive. Prosecutors said they found no proof of a sexual assault or a direct relationship between Kohberger and the victims, although his phone had connected to a cellular tower serving the area near their Moscow home several times before the killings. Kaylee's father, Steve Goncalves, disputed the prosecution's rejection of a sexual motive, claiming investigators had described disturbing material allegedly found on Kohberger's phone, but those claims have not been publicly verified.Experts have instead tried to infer motive from the attack itself. Forensic pathologist Mary Jumbelic said the extensive injuries inflicted on the three women appeared to show “overkill,” which can suggest rage, domination or a deeply personal psychological impulse, while the male victim was allegedly attacked differently. Digital investigators also said Kohberger's sparse online activity suggested he may have deliberately concealed his planning and interests. Ultimately, authorities said they found no definitive explanation for why he selected the house or its occupants, and Kohberger declined to speak at sentencing. His attempt to withdraw his guilty plea could potentially produce additional evidence if the case ever returned to court, but a former federal prosecutor interviewed by People predicted that his petition would be denied.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:Here's What Experts and Lawyers Have Said About Bryan Kohberger's MotiveBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.
In the first half of 2026, U.S. homicides fell 18 percent, putting the country on track for its lowest murder levels in more than a century according to White House and independent data. This episode examines the numbers from the Council on Criminal Justice, the multi-year decline after the pandemic-era spike, and the range of explanations offered for the trend. Hosts discuss what the data show, what remains uncertain, and why the story matters for public safety and policy debates.
In this one I tell you about: How the money comes in and quickly goes out A comforting old detective show I'm watching Steve is on the case in West Virginia! My search for the house we almost bought in 2000 All this and a fresh new call from Tony in Cleveland I hope you enjoy it. Thanks for listening! Check out expanded show notes at surfreportpod.com Need twice the Surf Report? We've got you covered. Just pop on over to patreon.com/jeffkay, sign up for a $4 (or more) monthly donation, and you'll immediately gain access to the weekly bonus shows. They're each a full-length episode and are only available to supporters at Patreon. Upgrade today! Also, we now have a telephone hotline where you can leave your comments, questions, and suggestions. The number is 570-290-8151. Give us a call and there's a very good chance you'll be part of a future show. It's all voicemail, no actual human will answer. If you're too shy for such shenanigans, email us at surfreportpod@gmail.com
In May 1992, the body of unhoused 45-year-old Nancy Hernandez was found beaten, sexually assaulted, and strangled in a utility corridor off Hang Ah Alley in San Francisco's Chinatown. More than three decades later, DNA evidence linked the crime to Ricky Dawson, a man already convicted or connected to similar sexual-assault murders in Florida, Colorado, and Washington. This episode examines the Hernandez case, the pattern of violence that stretched across four states, and how modern forensic work finally brought charges in the California cold case.
Forensic science has transformed the way crimes are investigated and justice is delivered. From fingerprints and DNA to new forms of anatomical identification, its breakthroughs have helped solve cases once thought impossible. Yet when evidence is misunderstood or experts overreach, the consequences can be devastating. In this episode, doctor and broadcaster Dr Radha Modgil speaks with Professor Lady Sue Black about her forty-year career as one of the world's leading forensic anthropologists. From a childhood spent helping her father prepare animals to work in anatomy laboratories, mortuaries and courtrooms, Sue reflects on the experiences that led her into forensic science and the responsibilities that come with presenting evidence in court. How certain can forensic science ever be? What happens when scientific evidence changes after a conviction? And how can juries be expected to understand complex findings? Drawing on landmark cases and her own pioneering research, Sue examines the role of the expert witness and the human cost of getting justice wrong. Professor Lady Sue Black is an anatomist and forensic anthropologist. She is the author of An Expert Witness, the final book in a trilogy that also includes All That Remains and Written in Bone. Dr Radha Modgil is a doctor, broadcaster and author whose work explores health, wellbeing and the experiences that shape our lives. If you'd like to become a Member and get access to all our full conversations, plus all of our Members-only content, just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. For £4.99 per month you'll also receive: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared episodes, wherever you get your podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series - 15% discount on livestreams and in-person tickets for all Intelligence Squared events ... Or Subscribe on Apple for £4.99: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series … Already a subscriber? Thank you for supporting our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations! Visit intelligencesquared.com to explore all your benefits including ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content and early access. … Subscribe to our newsletter here to hear about our latest events, discounts and much more. https://www.intelligencesquared.com/newsletter-signup/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jerry Wolking was worried, but nobody knew why. He was fidgety, pacing and didn't want to talk about what was on his mind. Days later, her mysteriously disappeared after leaving his girlfriend's house. He has never been seen again.For decades his case grew cold, leaving behind family and friends who searched and did everything they could try and keep his story alive but the silence was all consuming. Then, more than twenty-five years later, investigators dropped a bombshell.They identified a suspect, Cornelius Sedam, the estranged husband of Jerry's girlfriend. Though Sedam had passed away years earlier, there was more to the story, with detectives suggesting that there may be others, still alive who were involved; and they might even be members of Sedam's own family.Moline Police Department Podcast EpisodeFollowTEPod.comFollow Trace Evidence on Social MediaTwitter --- Instagram --- TikTok --- YouTube --- Like Facebook Page --- Join Facebook Group --- Threads --- Like MeWe Page --- Join MeWe Group --- BlueskySuppport Trace EvidencePatreon --- Paypal --- Cash App --- Buy Me A CoffeeTrace Evidence Merch ShopsTeePublic --- ShopTEPod --- SpreadshopAll Other LinksOfficial Trace Evidence Website --- LinkTreeMusic Courtesy of:"Lost Time" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Echoes of Time" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Galactic Rap" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#truecrimepodcast #unsolvedmysteries #coldcase #coldcaseinvestigation #murder #murdermystery #missingperson #missingpersons #truecrimecommunity #mysterypodcast #truecrime #coldcasefiles #truecrimestories #crimelovers #truecrimeaddict #truecrimejunkie #crimescene #justiceforall #missing #crimesquad #podcastcommunity #sleuthsunite #darkhistories #criminalmindset #detective #detectivediaries #forensics #forensicfiles #crimestories #crimepodcast #traceevidence #traceevidencepodcast #criminalinvestigation #justiceforvictims #detectivework #truecrimediscussion #podcastfamily #listenandsolve #crimefans #listentotraceevidence #uncoverthetruth #podcastrecommendations #podcastlove #podcastlife #truecrimeobsessed #followtheclues #cluefinders #podcastaddict #unsolvedmurders #unsolveddisappearances #detectiveatheart #jointheinvestigation #disappearance #vanishing #abduction #gonemissing #upandvanished #pacheco #stevenpacheco #podcasting #crimetalk #crimeanalysis #theories #jerrywolking #jerryawolking #wolking #moline #rockisland #corneliussedam #sedam #joannesedam #illinoisunsolvedSourcesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/trace-evidence--3207798/support.
This episode originally aired September 9, 2019. For six years, a serial killer prowled the streets of New York City. He wrote letters to police and "The New York Post," indicating he would kill twelve people, one for each astrological sign. Forensic astronomy, handwriting analysis, and DNA extracted from the flap of an envelope gave investigators a profile of the killer, and a stroke of luck enabled them to find him. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Not all stories have happy endings... Hosted by Courtney Fretwell. M.S. in Forensic Psychology, Forensic Tales is a weekly true crime podcast with a forensic twist. Each episode features real cases and explores how forensic science, criminal profiling, and investigative techniques were used to uncover the truth- or, in some case, left more questions than answers. #335 - When 53-year-old Oakey Kite, who went by Al, failed to show up for work on May 24th, 2004, his coworkers immediately knew something was wrong. Concerned, they went to his townhouse in Aurora to check on him where they discovered a crime scene so brutal, investigators would never forget it. Al had been restrained, tortured for hours, and ultimately murdered inside his own home by a man posing as a prospective tenant. The killer meticulously cleaned the scene, erased much of the evidence, and vanished without a trace leaving behind only fragments of forensic evidence and a fake identity that would send investigators across multiple countries. More than two decades later, the murder of Al Kite remains one of Colorado's most disturbing unsolved cases. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
There's been a big setback in the West Hollywood water main repairs. The hottest temperatures of the week arrive today, bringing unhealthy air conditions too. Forensic experts reveal what they found in the garage of the singer... accused of murdering a 14-year-old. Plus, more on Morning Edition. Support The L.A. Report by donating at LAist.com/join and by visiting https://laist.comSupport the show: https://laist.com
What happens when a young, healthy woman is found dead in her own home... and the questions begin long before the investigation has answers? This week on Pushing Up Lilies, I'm taking a closer look at the life and death of Alexandra "Allie" Hummel, a 36-year-old licensed nurse from Missouri whose unexpected death remains under investigation. Based on publicly available information, I walk through the timeline of events leading up to her death, including a documented domestic violence incident that occurred less than a year earlier and why that history is significant in any death investigation. From the 911 call to the pending toxicology results, I'll explain what investigators look for when responding to an unexpected death in the home, how prior incidents become part of the investigative process, and why every piece of evidence matters. As a forensic death investigator, I also share my professional perspective on scene documentation, autopsy findings, toxicology testing, and the importance of remaining objective while allowing the facts to determine the outcome. Most importantly, this episode is about Allie, a dedicated nurse, mother, daughter, sister, and friend whose loved ones continue to seek answers. While this investigation is still ongoing, her story also shines a light on the realities of domestic violence, the challenges victims often face, and why support systems are so important. Next week, I'll be joined by Allie's close friend, Kelsey, who will share personal memories of Allie and offer additional insight into the woman behind the headlines. If you or someone you love is experiencing domestic violence, please know that help is available. You are not alone.
A child's mutilated torso surfaced from the Thames near Shakespeare's Globe in 2001, and more than two decades later no one has been convicted of killing the boy investigators could only call Adam.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/TorsoInTheThamesREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3h6yrmk5FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Most people, when they think of the end of their lives, want to feel that they have accomplished something of significance. To leave a lasting legacy. But it is much more rare for someone to accomplish something significant – after they are dead! (Done By The Dead) *** Mrs. Elizabeth G. Wharton was a pillar of society in Baltimore, Maryland in the late 1800s. That is, until she was accused of murdering General William Scott Ketchum. (The Baltimore Borgia) *** For every legitimate and fascinating find by geologists, there seems to be a fraudulent find somewhere else trying to fool the masses. This has been a problem since geology became a thing – and one of the most fascinating of these true tales is the one about Baringer's Lying Stones. (The Lying Stones) *** A strange, ape-like creature with glowing eyes in England might really be, as some believe, a specter of the night. (Man-Monkey of the Night) *** It's hard to understand how human sacrifice has ever been a reality in any point in history – but what if you were to learn that evidence of it showed up in London, England… in 2001? (Torso In The River) *** A would-be geisha murders her lover… but the events leading up to and during the death make for a fascinatingly dark story. (The Murderess Geisha) *** When it comes to spectral animals, we're more than familiar with black dogs or hell hounds, ghostly cats, horses carrying a headed or headless phantom, even a ghost bear rumored to haunt the Tower of London… but have you ever heard of the American Southwest's ghost camels? (America's Ghost Camels)CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:02:24.699 = America's Ghost Camels00:09:18.422 = Done By The Dead ***00:22:00.457 = The Baltimore Borgia ***00:27:35.655 = The Lying Stones00:36:08.415 = Torso In The River ***00:42:13.573 = The Murderess Geisha00:54:03.666 = Man-Monkey of the Night ***00:58:48.550 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:“Man-Monkey Of The Night” by Nick Redfern for MysteriousUniverse.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bdhdevrr“Done By The Dead” by Kyle D. Walter for ListVerse.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y62afnj6“America's Ghost Camels” by Kathy Weiser-Alexander for LegendsOfAmerica.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p979beb“The Baltimore Borgia” by Robert Wilhelm for MurderByGaslight.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y2whacb9“Torso In The River” by Richard Hoskins for MysteryConfidential.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bdd5u543“The Murderess Geisha” by Dr. Romeo Vitelli for Providentia: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yzy4v3wy“The Lying Stones” by Brent Swancer for MysteriousUniverse.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p854d9e(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. 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Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: January, 2021This episode of Weird Darkness moves from ghost camels haunting the Arizona desert to corpses that kept making history after death, a Baltimore poisoning that gripped a courtroom for weeks, a professor fooled by carved stones, a child's murder in the Thames that London police have never solved, a Tokyo geisha who killed the man she loved, and a glowing-eyed creature on an English canal bridge.It opens in the American southwest, where the U.S. War Department imported some seventy-two camels in 1857 to haul supplies, only to turn the animals loose in the desert when the Civil War broke out and the soldiers tired of their foul temper and habit of spooking horses. Wild camels roamed Arizona for decades afterward, and one became legend as the Red Ghost — a beast blamed for trampling a woman to death in 1883 and later seen carrying a dead man lashed to its back, a rider who eventually decayed until a human skull dropped from the saddle in front of a group of startled prospectors. An Arizona farmer finally shot the animal in 1893, still wearing the leather straps that had held its corpse rider in place.From there the episode turns to figures who kept shaping the world after they died. A gang of Chicago counterfeiters led by "Big Jim" Kennally plotted in 1876 to steal Abraham Lincoln's body from his Springfield tomb and ransom it for a jailed engraver, foiled by a Secret Service informant working for the very agency Lincoln himself had signed into existence. A grave robber broke into George Washington's crypt at Mount Vernon in 1830 hunting the president's skull and made off with the wrong one. The British philosopher Jeremy Bentham left instructions to have his body dissected and mummified, and it sits on display at University College London to this day. And in the ninth century Pope Stephen VI dug up his predecessor Formosus, dressed the rotting corpse in papal vestments, propped it up for trial, found it guilty, and had it thrown into the Tiber.Next comes Baltimore in 1871, where Elizabeth Wharton, a respected society widow, hosted General William Scott Ketchum in her home on Hamilton Place until he fell suddenly ill and died with twenty grains of tartar emetic in his stomach — fifteen is enough to kill. Police discovered she had bought sixty grains days earlier, and a financial advisor named Eugene Van Ness nearly died the same way after she served him a drink. Her forty-two-day poison trial in Annapolis exhausted the medical and chemical experts of the day, and after deliberating through the night the jury acquitted her of murder.The episode then crosses to Germany, where Johann Beringer, a celebrated professor at the University of Würzburg, spent 1725 collecting strange carved stones dug up on Mount Eibelstadt by teenage boys he had hired — figures of birds, lizards, comets, and the name of God rendered in Hebrew. Convinced they were the handiwork of God himself, he published a book on them called the Lithographiae Wirceburgensis, only to learn the nearly two thousand stones had been planted by two envious colleagues, J. Ignatz Roderick and Johann Georg von Eckhart, who thought him an arrogant know-it-all and wanted to humble him.From an academic hoax the episode moves to an unsolved horror. On September 21st, 2001, a child's headless, limbless torso surfaced from the Thames near the Globe Theatre, wrapped in orange cloth, and London's Metropolitan Police could give the boy no name but Adam. Forensic analysis of poison and minerals in his remains traced him to the Benin region of Nigeria and showed he had been paralyzed and drained of blood in what investigators believed was a muti ritual killing. Nelson Mandela made an international appeal for information, and traffickers including Kingsley Ojo and a caregiver named Joyce Osagiede were investigated, but no one has ever been convicted and the boy's true identity has never been confirmed.The episode carries that darkness into 1936 Tokyo, where Sada Abe strangled her lover Kichizo Ishida in an inn after a days-long affair, then took a kitchen knife to his body and carried a severed part of him away in her handbag. Her capture two days later set off a national obsession the papers called "Sada mania," and her testimony about killing the man she refused to share became a bestseller in a country where such candor was scandalous. She was sentenced to six years, served her time as a model prisoner, and vanished from public life sometime after 1970.The episode closes on a cold English night in January 1879, when a furniture hauler crossing Bridge 39 over the Shropshire Union Canal near the village of Ranton was charged by a shaggy, ape-like creature with glowing eyes that leapt onto his cart and terrified his horse. When he swung his whip at the thing, the lash passed straight through its body, and the creature bolted down toward the canal and vanished. The folklorist Charlotte Burne later learned from the village constable that the sightings had begun only days after a man drowned in that same canal, in a place where people believed a violent death could send someone back in the shape of a beast.
On science-driven crime fiction in the 1920s and the 2020s. Many thanks to my guest, Kathy Reichs. The paperback of Evil Bones is published on 30th July in the UK. You can find out more about Kathy and her work at her website, kathyreichs.com. Support the podcast by joining the Shedunnit Book Club and get extra Shedunnit episodes every month plus access to the monthly reading discussions and community: shedunnitbookclub.com/join. Books & sources mentioned in this episode:— The Missing Moneylender by W. Stanley Sykes— The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers ad Robert Eustace— The Bone Collection by Kathy Reichs— Evil Bones by Kathy Reichs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award winning CSI from CBS46's CSI Atlanta, Director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute (CCIRI), a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. Sheryl holds a master's degree in Criminal Justice with an emphasis on Policing. She is the co-author of the textbook., Cold Case: Pathways to Justice. Kate and Mac dive deep into the Chandra Levy disappearance, applying McCollum's suspectology framework and revisiting overlooked details of the case timeline. Reality Life with Kate Casey Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/story/martha-moxleys-diary What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/katecaseyca Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itskatecasey?lang=en Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113157919338245 Amazon List: https://www.amazon.com/shop/katecasey Twitter: https://twitter.com/katecaseySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award winning CSI from CBS46's CSI Atlanta, Director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute (CCIRI), a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. Sheryl holds a master's degree in Criminal Justice with an emphasis on Policing. She is the co-author of the textbook., Cold Case: Pathways to Justice. Kate discusses Mac's career arc, from teenage Rape Crisis Center volunteer to founder of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute. Reality Life with Kate Casey Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/story/martha-moxleys-diary What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/katecaseyca Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itskatecasey?lang=en Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113157919338245 Amazon List: https://www.amazon.com/shop/katecasey Twitter: https://twitter.com/katecaseySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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