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Alex Murdaugh's defense filed a new motion demanding prosecutors search again for evidence and witness credibility material generated since the first trial, and certify in writing, within thirty days, that nothing favorable was missed. It names no witness. It alleges no specific missing document. Tony Brueski breaks down why that might be the point. 
The supplemental Brady and Giglio motion lists ten categories: plea and cooperation agreements, new witness statements, updated personnel and internal affairs files, testing methodology and proficiency records, additional search warrants, and anything post-trial bearing on the verdict's integrity. Prosecutors haven't responded yet, and a sanctions motion tied to an earlier suppression claim from the first trial is still outstanding. 
The filing lands alongside a separate move from the state: prosecutors want a new jury to hear Murdaugh's own 2023 testimony, including his admission that he lied to investigators for about eighteen months about being at the kennels the night Maggie and Paul were killed. The state is also renewing motions to keep third-party guilt evidence from the jury and to bar any mention of a polygraph, after Murdaugh's attorneys once claimed Curtis Eddie Smith failed one on the murders. Prosecutors are pushing for a fresh review of digital evidence while opposing independent DNA testing sought by the defense. 
Judge Debra McCaslin has tentatively set the retrial for April 5, 2027. Murdaugh is presumed innocent, has denied the killings since 2021, and remains imprisoned on unrelated financial crimes. 
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Kevin Reddington spent hours cross-examining Dr. Jennifer Tufts on Day 10 of Lindsay Clancy's trial, and one line of questioning kept circling back to a test that was never run. Tony Brueski breaks down exactly what Tufts declined to order, and what she said when Reddington pushed on it. 
Tufts testified all fourteen of her appointments with Clancy happened over video, that she never spoke to Clancy's parents, and that she couldn't access records from a separate perinatal clinic Clancy was attending because she never asked Clancy to sign a release. Reddington also pressed her on a treatment she considered but couldn't prescribe outpatient, and on a 2021 study linking thyroid function to postpartum psychosis that she hadn't read. Midway through, he stopped and told her she was a doctor trying to do the right thing. 
The episode also covers testimony from Dr. Alia Goodheart, who treated Clancy at McLean Hospital and acknowledged she doesn't believe she's ever treated a patient with postpartum psychosis, and from Dr. Sejal Shah, a prosecution witness who agreed a person can communicate and make plans while in a state of psychosis. Both Tufts and Goodheart testified they never knew Clancy had called a crisis line twice, calls that appear in Clancy's own civil filings. 
The prosecution's cross drew out that Clancy booked her own appointments, drove herself to an emergency room, and never showed a sign of psychosis in front of Tufts. Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder. Support is available around the clock at 988. 
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Patrick Clancy's wrongful death lawsuit, filed in January 2026, doesn't just grieve his children. It builds a medical case against the providers who treated Lindsay in the weeks before Cora, Dawson, and Callan died. Tony Brueski opens the filing and lays out exactly what it alleges. 
According to the complaint, providers misprescribed a stack of powerful psychiatric medications and kept adding new ones without a coordinated plan behind the decisions. The civil filings count nine medications in Lindsay's final months, eight of them inside the last three weeks, while her own criminal defense counts thirteen. Her final psychiatric appointment fell on January 23, 2023, the day before her children died, and a simple lab test that would have shown whether her body was processing those medications was never ordered. The complaint states that with adequate care, it's more likely than not the children would still be alive, directly at odds with what prosecutors are arguing in Plymouth Superior Court, where Lindsay is accused of planning the killings. 
The episode also folds in eight days of criminal trial testimony, where prosecution witnesses, including friends, the family's nanny, and even Patrick's own relatives, keep describing Lindsay as a devoted mother. Tony covers the takeout order and errand splitting the audience, the pill bottles prosecutors emptied out to argue she skipped her medication, the psychiatric hospital that discharged her nineteen days before her children died, and whether a not-criminally-responsible verdict could ever mean Lindsay walks free. 
Two counties, two juries, and a lawsuit that reads like the missing half of the story. 
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Ryan Kelly told Alex Murdaugh's jury that nothing tied alternate suspect Eddie Smith to the murders of Maggie and Paul. In June 2026, he was fired from a Charleston County internal affairs job. The records don't describe the allegations, and nothing currently links the firing to his SLED work or the Murdaugh case. Tony Brueski lays out exactly what's known and what isn't. 
The timing matters because of what else surfaced the same week. On August 5, 2026, Murdaugh's defense filed a Brady motion demanding prosecutors search every file, agency, and personnel record connected to the case and swear in writing that nothing favorable to Murdaugh is being withheld. It leans heavily on lead investigator David Owen's record: a 2015 murder case where a judge later quashed the indictment because the state sat on favorable evidence for nearly a decade, including a mother's account that Owen denied under oath. 
Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins to weigh whether the defense's demand is a fishing expedition or something this investigation has earned. She also addresses the white shirt Murdaugh wore the night of the murders, which tested negative for human blood before a chemical used in SLED's own testing left it permanently unusable for any further analysis. 
The same day the motion was filed, a federal judge dismissed Murdaugh's $600,000 lawsuit against former clerk Becky Hill, whose jury tampering overturned his original convictions. Hill has pleaded guilty to obstruction, perjury, and misconduct and received no prison time. Judge Debra McCaslin hears arguments on the Brady motion August 14, 2026. Murdaugh is presumed innocent ahead of his 2027 retrial. 
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The Plymouth County District Attorney charged one person in the deaths of the three Clancy children. State Police investigated and landed on that same name. It wasn't Patrick Clancy. So why does a growing slice of the internet keep insisting otherwise? Tony Brueski runs the theory down. 
The claims circulating on Instagram and TikTok form a full list: Patrick drugged his wife for months, he held the restraints, he staged the bedroom window, the locked door was his doing, and his 2026 remarriage is proof he had a motive all along. Tony checks each one against actual courtroom testimony — NMS Laboratories toxicologist Justin Brower's findings on four medications in Lindsay Clancy's blood, the direction an interior bedroom lock actually turns, and a fingerprint claim that turns out to misread what a state trooper said on the stand. 
Retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke joins to explain why online crowds gravitate toward the husband as a suspect almost by reflex, no matter what the paper trail shows, and what it would genuinely take to change that. His answer isn't the easy one. 
Patrick's alibi is backed by CVS surveillance and phone records down to the minute. The remarriage detail came out in open court — Lindsay's own attorney disclosed it and told the judge Patrick had lived through one of the worst tragedies a person can survive. Three providers who treated Lindsay have since testified, and civil filings name all three as defendants in the case some are calling a cover story. Hear the full breakdown and decide where the evidence actually points. 
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