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Patrick Clancy's attorney says the accounts accusing him in his children's deaths are about to answer for it, and one line in his statement tells you how serious this is. Eric Faddis, defense attorney and former prosecutor, joins True Crime Today to explain the legal road from an online post to a courtroom.
The statement from attorney Howard Cooper came out September 8, 2026. It describes months of a "relentless, escalating and destructive defamation campaign" against Patrick and his family, built on what the statement calls outright falsehoods. It says the people responsible appear intent on boosting their own social media profiles. It promises that every appropriate measure will be pursued to hold them accountable, including legally. And it says law enforcement has been notified.
Eric explains how lawyers identify an anonymous poster, and why the platform usually ends up handing over the name. He explains why "in my opinion" is not the shield most creators think it is. He describes what discovery looks like for an influencer, including private messages and the money the posts earned. He explains where civil defamation ends and criminal harassment or stalking begins. And he answers whether a few high-profile lawsuits could change how creators cover the families in these cases.
Patrick Clancy was the prosecution's first witness at the trial of his former wife. Lindsay Clancy was charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the January 24, 2023 deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan. The jury could not agree after 38 hours of deliberation. DA Tim Cruz has not said whether he will retry the case. Both sides are due back in court September 29.
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Matthew Farwell's federal murder trial begins October 5 in Boston, and the defense is preparing to put Sandra Birchmore's life on trial. Their argument: she was unstable, manipulative, a liar, and she killed herself. The prosecution's answer: every one of those traits was created by the men who exploited her since she was twelve years old.Sandra joined the Stoughton Police Explorers as a kid looking for positive male role models. Prosecutors allege Farwell began a relationship with her when she was fifteen and he was a twenty-seven-year-old officer. Three other men connected to the department were also involved. None faced criminal charges. The only arrest came three years after Sandra was found dead with a duffel bag strap tied around her neck in her Canton apartment.Farwell's DNA was the major contributor on that strap. A fracture in Sandra's hyoid bone had zero documented parallels in women found seated. She had abrasions on her nose, hemorrhage in a neck muscle, and a broken necklace on the floor. The scene was declared a suicide before the autopsy. A state trooper extracted Farwell's phone and found zero messages between him and Sandra. The FBI later recovered 32,709 of them.Sandra planned to announce her pregnancy on Valentine's Day. Farwell attended a training where the medical examiner discussed how to identify suicide in hanging deaths. The defense will show the jury Sandra's pain. The prosecution will show them who caused it.
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The Lindsay Clancy trial went to a jury that deliberated for thirty-eight hours across seven days and couldn't agree. Judge Sullivan declared a mistrial September 4 after the jury reported being hopelessly deadlocked at eleven to one.
Outside the courtroom, the conspiracy was already running. TikTok and Instagram creators built an alternate case against Patrick Clancy — the man who testified as the prosecution's first witness and whose ex-wife admitted through her defense that she killed their three children. Some used astrology. Others used trial footage. The theories grew through the trial and intensified after the mistrial.
A man posted a TikTok saying he ended a $200,000 wedding because his fiancée expressed sympathy for Lindsay. He called her a monster. Four million people watched.
On September 8, Patrick's attorney Howard Cooper called it a defamation campaign, confirmed law enforcement has been notified, and warned that consequences are coming. Lindsay's own attorney Kevin Reddington praised the conspiracy theorists' investigative ability after the mistrial.
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines the full picture with Tony Brueski — the relationships cracking, the father accused, and why the country can't sit with uncertainty when three children are dead.
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Sources say medical professionals warned Rob and Michele Reiner not to let their son Nick stay in the home after a medication switch weeks before the killings. A second source confirmed doctors told the parents the change could trigger more erratic behavior. They let him stay. They’d been letting him stay for years — through the meth benders, the destroyed guest house, the threats against his sister, the stolen money, the 18 rehab stays he’d cycled through since he was 15. Nick Reiner was diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent a year under a court-ordered conservatorship for grave disability. That oversight ended in 2021 and was never renewed. Four years later, a grand jury indicted him on two counts of murder with a lying-in-wait special circumstance — an allegation that he concealed his purpose, watched and waited, and attacked his parents inside their Brentwood bedroom with the specific intent to kill. The night before, his parents had brought him to a holiday party to keep an eye on him. One guest said he was freaking everyone out. He argued loudly with his father and was asked to leave. Tony walks through the medical warnings, the behavioral record, and the lying-in-wait charge — then puts the case alongside Lindsay Clancy’s, where a mother chased her doctors for help and the system couldn’t get there in time. Nick Reiner has pleaded not guilty. Held without bail. Next hearing September 15.
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The Lindsay Clancy trial presented two readings of the same set of facts. The prosecution said she acted deliberately and understood what she was doing. The defense said postpartum psychosis hijacked her brain and she was incapable of appreciating the wrongfulness of her actions. The jury deliberated for thirty-eight hours and couldn't agree.
The public is having the same argument with less information and more certainty. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott says the fury, the side-taking, and the demand for a clean answer all trace back to a biological truth most people are unwilling to confront: severe postpartum psychosis is a real medical event that can happen to a person with no history of violence.
Scott explains what the word "monster" does psychologically when applied to a case like this — and who it's actually protecting. Why the public distinguishes between a heart attack causing a fatal car crash and a brain illness causing a catastrophe. What it means when mothers watching the trial recognize something in Lindsay's story they've carried in silence.
And the clinical bottom line: when the loudest public message is that compassion for a mentally ill mother makes you dangerous, the next mother in crisis gets the message too.
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