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Lindsay Clancy saw her psychiatrist fourteen times. Every appointment was a video call. Dr. Jennifer Tufts testified she never observed signs of psychosis and that Lindsay denied wanting to hurt herself or anyone else. On cross-examination, the foundation of that testimony collapsed.
Tufts didn't have Lindsay's full medical record during treatment. She never used the Edinburgh screening scale. She was unaware Lindsay had reached out to a suicide hotline on two occasions. Her board certification arrived on the same date Lindsay filled out intake paperwork. The prosecution brought her to the stand to prove Lindsay was mentally stable. Three hours of defense questioning turned that testimony into an exhibit about a healthcare system that evaluated a struggling mother through a screen.
Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis examines the prosecution's strategy three weeks into the trial. The state's premeditation theory relies on a single Google search and the timing of a takeout errand. But witness after witness called by the prosecution has described a devoted mother overwhelmed by thirteen medications and unable to get adequate help. In Massachusetts, the prosecution carries the burden of proving criminal responsibility. The state's own case may be undermining that burden.
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"I want a trial." Judge London Kite asked Henry Tenon whether he wanted to keep his guilty plea or take his chances with a jury, and that was his answer. She told him he had it. One prosecution turned into three separate trials stretching from August 2026 into March 2027.
Jared Bridegan died on February 16, 2022 on Sanctuary Boulevard in Jacksonville Beach. He had just dropped his twins at the home of his ex-wife, Shanna Gardner, after taking them to dinner. A tire in the road stopped his SUV. He got out to move it and was shot. His 2-year-old daughter was in the back seat and was not hit.
Mario Fernandez Saldana went first. His verdict will be read aloud rather than sealed, days before the people who will judge Gardner are chosen. We cover the wiretaps on Gardner's phone and Apple Watch that a judge refused to suppress, the witness kept off the stand under marital privilege, and the state's late disclosure that a second person drove away from the scene.
Gardner, Fernandez Saldana and Tenon have each pleaded not guilty and are presumed innocent.
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Screening tools exist because the human eye misses things. There is a ten-question screen built specifically for postpartum mood disorders. Lindsay Clancy took it in November 2022 with a nurse practitioner and scored 23 out of 30. Testimony established McLean Hospital never gave it to her.
The three first-degree murder counts against Clancy all carry not guilty pleas. Cora, Dawson, and Callan died on January 24, 2023. She admits causing their deaths. The not criminally responsible claim rests on postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder. The Commonwealth says she acted rationally and knew what she was doing.
This is the full conversation with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, running all three parts.
Part one explains the illness. A 2017 review in BMC Psychiatry puts postpartum psychosis at roughly one or two births in a thousand, and it usually arrives within days or weeks of delivery. Callan was eight months old.
Part two examines the clinicians. Dr. Jennifer Tufts treated Clancy across fourteen video sessions without ever meeting her, and testified she relied on Clancy to volunteer whatever mattered. Dr. Alia Goodheart testified her caseload had never included one.
Part three covers bipolar disorder, raised by a nurse practitioner in 2022 and written on the McLean discharge as severe depression with no psychotic features noted.
Nightbird is her published memoir. Both doctors dispute the malpractice claims.
The McLean admission began January 1, 2023 and ended with a discharge four days later. She has been in a wheelchair throughout the proceedings. Shavaun covers what changes in treatment once bipolar disorder is on the chart, and why a mood stabilizer alters the entire prescribing calculus.

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Jesse Mack Butler pleaded no contest to eleven felony counts in Payne County, Oklahoma in August 2025. A judge found a factual basis and entered convictions. Less than a year later, those convictions were gone.
The dismissal landed on August 3, 2026, the day before his nineteenth birthday, which is the exact point Oklahoma law ends a court's power over a youthful offender. Juvenile affairs officials reported he met every condition without a violation.
His penalty was counseling, a curfew, daily check-ins, no social media, 150 hours of community service, and roughly $3,300. He faced 78 years and never entered custody at any stage of the case.
Two sixteen-year-old Stillwater High students reported him. Civil filings say one required surgery on her throat and that a doctor told her how close she had come. Those filings also allege a coordinated effort to pressure her into silence. Butler has never answered any of it under oath.
The families fought the plea under Marsy's Law and lost in April 2026, when a judge found they had been properly notified and fairly treated. Protesters filled the courthouse steps in November 2025 demanding the judge and district attorney be removed. The district attorney later left office.
Her replacement, sworn in three days before the final hearing, is sending the file to federal prosecutors and says double jeopardy leaves him nothing else. A former prosecutor put the odds bluntly: federal authorities rarely reopen a finished state case.
State Farm has asked a federal judge to release it from defending Butler, arguing its policies cover accidents rather than intentional or criminal acts.
The girl's parents have sued Butler, his parents, and the school district. A deposition is the one thing left that puts him under oath.
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The murder trial of Lindsay Clancy moved into some of its most graphic territory today, with Massachusetts State Police case officer Joshua McKelligan testifying about the crime scene video he captured inside the Duxbury, Massachusetts home just hours after the killings. Clancy is accused of strangling her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and is mounting an insanity defense built on claims of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication, led by attorney Kevin Reddington.
McKelligan told jurors he entered the home in the early morning of January 25 to document the master bedroom on video, footage played in court today that centered on blood spatters and smears, a knife, and the window from which Clancy allegedly jumped. The blood, he testified, was on the floors — not the walls. He also described a bloody handprint discovered outside that window, and testified that Patrick Clancy personally handed him pill bottles from the home.
Prosecutors are expected to argue Clancy understood the nature of her actions despite the defense's mental-health claims. After the killings, Clancy allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from that second-story window, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. Patrick Clancy was out running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial, underway in Plymouth Superior Court, is expected to run several weeks.

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