Lindsay Clancy Trial: 'Medication Stole My Motherhood,' Luigi Mangione Moves to Kill the State Case, Tupac Trial Opening Statements

Prosecutors in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial showed jurors notes and search history from her devices, including a note created in December 2022 and last modified January 23, 2023 — the day before she killed her three children — reading, "Medication stole my motherhood and my life." State police also testified she searched "can you treat a sociopath" days before the killings. On cross-examination, defense attorney Kevin Reddington established that an earlier search for suicide methods came from her then-husband's tablet while she was out of the house, and walked jurors through searches for hallucinations and intrusive thoughts that the state had not highlighted. Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, and argues she was not criminally responsible. The Commonwealth is close to resting. Also: after pleading guilty Friday to two federal stalking counts, Luigi Mangione moved to dismiss the New York murder case on double jeopardy grounds; the Manhattan District Attorney's office is opposing. And in Las Vegas, opening statements begin in the murder trial of Duane Davis in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur.

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Speaker 1: Caalaroga Shark Media. Good morning. This is daily Crime Injustice

from Calaroga Shark Media powered by AI. I'm Garrett Fisher. Monday,

August seventeenth, twenty twenty six. There is a note on

Lindsey Clancy's phone. She created it on December twenty second,

twenty twenty two. She modified it for the last time

on January twenty third, twenty twenty three. The next day Cora,

Dawson and Callen were dead. That note says medication stole

her motherhood and her life. It says prescription medication stole

her from her own body. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts put

that into evidence. The prosecution read it to the jury

because in their theory of this case, that note shows

a woman who was thinking clearly, who could construct a sentence,

who knew what she was doing and had a grievance

about it. And Kevin Reddington will argue that same note

is the single best piece of evidence his client has,

that is the whole trial. Same words, two completely opposite meanings.

Twelve people are going to have to pick one. Today

Thursday in Plymouth, when the state finally showed the jury

what was on Lindsay Clancy's devices, and Reddington looked at

their star digital witness and asked, that's it. Then, something

I've been chewing on all weekend, which is what's happening

outside that courtroom. Because social media has decided this trial

has a villain and it is not the woman who

killed three children. There are TikTok montages tracking what a

prosecutor wears in her hair. I have thoughts about that,

and you may not like all of them. Then New

York on Friday, Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty in federal court

with no deal and no promises, and within minutes his

lawyers moved to blow up the state murder case. We

covered the plea in a bulletin today What Happens Next,

and in Las Vegas this morning at nine thirty opening statements.

Thirty years after Tupac Shakur was shot at a red light,

twelve jurors and four alternates are about to hear the case.

I'm Garrett Fisher. This is Daily Crime and Justice Court.

Clancy was five, Dawson Clancy was three, Callan Clancy was

eight months old. Their mother strangled them with exercise bands

in the basement of the family home in Duxbury, Massachusetts,

on January twenty fourth, twenty twenty three. She admits it.

She is pleaded not guilty to three counts of first

degree murder on the ground that she was not criminally

responsible and she is presumed innocent. Court was dark Friday.

Testimony resumes this morning, so Thursday is where we pick up,

and Thursday was the day the prosecution went digital. Massachusetts

State Police Sergeant Kyle Pavau testified about a Microsoft surface

pro in the Clancy house on August twenty third, twenty

twenty two, at nine forty in the morning. That device

was used to search for a singer named Tom Hall

who died by suicide in twenty twenty one, and from

there it navigated to a website about suicide methods. That's

the evidence, planning research months in advance. And then Kevin

Reddington stood up, that's it, that's your testimony. That's why

you're here today. And then he did the thing that mattered.

He had. The trooper confirmed two facts to the jury. One,

the surface pro belonged to Patrick Clancy, the husband. Two,

Lindsey Clancy wasn't home. She was at a doctor's appointment

for Dawson when that search happened. Look, I'm gonna be

honest with you. If you are the Commonwealth and you

are building a premeditation case and your digital evidence expert

has to sit there and agree that the search was

on somebody else's computer while your defendant was at a

pediatrician's office, that is a bad afternoon. Then came Trooper

Timothy Chiappini, who analyzed the extraction from Lindsay Clancy's own phone,

and this is stronger. Three days before the killings, she

searched can you Treat a sociopath? And they read her journal.

The first entry was created October twenty fifth, twenty twenty two,

modified November three. In it, she writes that she's sad

and depressed, that she stopped breastfeeding and doesn't feel as

connected to Callen. That she thinks she resents her other

children because they prevent her from treating the baby the

way she treated her first, and that she knows that

isn't fair to them. She writes that she wants to

feel love and connection with all of her kids. She

writes about an internal conflict because her whole life she

wanted a lot of children. In another version read to

the jury, she writes that she's struggling because she wanted

to parent each of her kids the way she parented

her first, and since she can't, that's depressing, and she

calls it the root cause of all their problems, and

then she writes that she's going to try her best today.

The second note is the one from December twenty second,

modified January twenty third. Medication stole my motherhood and my life.

Prescription medication stole me from my own body. Then the

state put up an Apple map search, plotting distance and

travel time from the Clancy house to the restaurant and

the CBS where she sent Patrick that night their argument.

She measured how long she had that's goal directed thinking,

that's intent. That is a real piece of evidence, and

I'm not going to wave it away. Timing how long

your husband will be gone is not something a person

does by accident, and the sociopath search is worse because

of what it implies about self awareness. Three days out,

she is asking whether a condition characterized by an absence

of conscience can be treated. The state will say that's

a woman who knew something was wrong with her and

was researching it clinically. The defense will say it's a

woman terrified of what was happening inside her own head,

googling at two in the morning, the same way she

googled hallucinations five days later, and intrusive thoughts the day

after that. I don't know which of those it is.

Neither do you. That's the point of a trial. But

watch what Reddington did with the rest of that phone.

He walked the trooper through January twenty fourth, the day

of and he had him confirmed. There was a photograph

on that phone that Lindsey Clancy took of Cora and

Dawson with a snowman they'd built, and Patrick's replied to it,

you're a good mama. That's on the same device same day.

Then Reddington went after what the prosecution had left out.

Because the state showed the jury a suicide methods website

and a sociopath search, Reddington showed them the searches the

state skipped. On January nineteenth, she searched hallucinations. On January twentieth,

she searched intrusive and in between the medication searches and

the psychiatric symptom searches, there she is looking up pre

made goodie bags. On New Year's Eve best kids movies.

That's the picture the defense wants that jury holding a

woman googling her own symptoms in the same week she's

googling party favors for her children. The prosecution says, the

journal proves she was lucid and resentful. The defense says,

the journal proves she was drowning and knew it and

wrote it down and asked for help. Anyway, both sides

are reading from the same page. And here's what strikes

me about those entries, having now read them a few times.

They are not the writing of somebody building an alibi.

Nobody constructs a fake insanity defense by writing that they

resent their own children and then adding that they know

that isn't fair to them. That's not a person performing.

That's a person taking inventory of herself and not liking

what she finds. It's also, and this cuts the other way,

evidence of a woman who was capable of sustained, organized,

self aware thought in the weeks before she killed three people.

Prosecutors will hammer that psychosis, they will argue, does not

write coherent paragraphs about breastfeeding and internal conflict. The defense

answer to that is going to come from experts, and

it's going to be that postpartum psychosis is not a

permanent fog. It waxes, it waves. A person can be

organized on a Tuesday and gone on a Thursday. Whether

this jury buys that is the entire case. One more

thing from earlier in the week, because it belongs with this.

When Reddington caught a discrepancy in doctor Jennifer Tuff's own

notes in the medical record and pressed her on it,

Tuffs got frustrated and told him she knows what she meant.

Judge Sullivan had already had to remind her to let

him finish his questions before she answered, I know what

I meant. That's a psychiatrist defending her own documentation in

a murder trial, where the documentation is the evidence. The

Commonwealth is close to resting. Testimony resumes this morning, and

then finally we hear from the defense. We'll be right

back now. The thing I've been chewing on. Something is

happening around this trial that has not happened in any

comparable case. I can remember. When Susan Smith drowned her sons,

the public wanted her destroyed. When Casey Anthony was tried,

the public wanted her destroyed. Those two women became shorthand

for monstrousness in this country for thirty years. Lindsey Clancy

has admitted to killing three children, and the Internet has

largely lined up behind her, and not just behind her

against the prosecutors. There's a TikTok user calling the prosecutors

in this case not just bad at their jobs, but

disgusting human beings. A forensic scientist with an audience saying

the state is going to lose this jury. A woman

testified for the defense request who called the prosecution of

this case an abomination. Court TV took this to two

defense attorneys, and I want to give you both because

they don't agree. Mark Iglarsh, a Florida defense lawyer and

former prosecutor, said the thing, the thing that surprised him

is how fast people went from thinking there might be

a legitimate mental health explanation to deciding Lindsey Clancy is

innocent and the prosecution is the villain. He said, those

are very different conclusions. He also said he thinks the

prosecutors are doing an effective job, that they're prepared and

they know their evidence. David Bruno, a New Jersey defense

attorney and former prosecutor, disagreed. On the tactics. He thinks

calling the medical examiner was a mistake, given that it

left Clancy sobbing and forced the state to clean up

its own witness. He also thinks the state got ahead

of its skis by taking on the sanity question before

the defense is even opened, and in doing so handed

Reddington the chance to start laying bricks early. Both of

them agree on the endgame, though this case comes down

to the experts defense, case in chief prosecution rebuttal, whoever

the jury finds more credible. Now here's the part I

need to talk about, because it is the ugliest piece

of this and nobody is saying it plainly. Assistant District

Attorney Shane and Buckingham has worn a bow in her

hair every day of this trial. In her opening statement,

she told the jury about Cora, that Cora had just

turned five, that she was sweet and silly and smart,

that she loved sparkly dresses and wearing bows in her hair.

And every day since Buckingham has worn one. There are

people online making montage videos cataloging each bow. There are

people calling it a cheap gimmick, a manipulation of the jury,

torture of the defendant the lawyer's court TV asked had

real concerns about it, and they're not frivolous ones. Bruno

called it improper and said an appellate court could have

a problem with it if that's why she's wearing them,

because it injects the prosecutor's emotions into the case. Egglarsh

called it a courtroom optics problem, said the prosecutor's job

is to present evidence rather than visually reinforce it, and

made the fair point that if a defense lawyer wore

a symbol representing postpartum psychosis, the state would call it

emotional manipulation. Those are legitimate professional criticisms, and I'm not

dismissing them. If it's a jury tactic, it's a bad

one and it could cost the commonwealth on appeal. But

I want you to sit with what we're actually looking at.

In a triple child homicide, the thing generating the most

online outrage is that a prosecutor is wearing a hair

ribbon for a five year old girl who was strangled

in a basement. Cora Clancy loved bows in her hair.

That is a real fact about a real child who existed.

She was five. She liked sparkly dresses. Her preschool teacher

said she was sweet and loved her little brother and

played with barbies. And in three weeks of testimony about

medications and screening scales and telehealth appointments and Edinburgh scores,

that beow may be the only thing in that courtroom

that has consistently reminded anybody that Cora was a person.

I've spent three weeks on this show tellelling you the

system failed Lindsey Clancy, because I believe the evidence shows

that turned away from women and infants a twenty three

out of thirty. Her prescriber never saw four providers, none

of them talking. All of that is real, and I'm

not walking any of it back. But there are three

children in this case, and lately they have become a detail.

The story has become a woman and a healthcare system

and a prosecutor's accessories. Cora, Dawson and Callen have almost

disappeared from it. Somebody has to say their names. If

it takes a ribbon, then let her wear the ribbon.

And one more thing about the online jury. Those people

are not in that courtroom. They have not sat through

fourteen days of testimony. They are watching clips edited to

a point chosen because they provoke. Meanwhile, twelve actual jurors

are sitting there with no phones, hearing all of it

in order, including the parts that don't make anybody's feed. Whatever,

those twelve decide they will know things the internet does not,

and I'll say the uncomfortable part. The reason this case

is broken differently than Susan Smith or Casey Anthony is

not only that we understand postpartum illness better now, though

we do. It's also that Lindsey Clancy is sympathetic in

ways those women were not permitted to be. She was

a labor and delivery nurse. She has a paper trail

of asking for help. She is in a wheelchair in

that courtroom. All of that is real, and none of

it is evidence of what was in her mind on

January twenty fourth. A jury is supposed to decide criminal

responsibility on the evidence, not on how much a defendant

deserves our compassion. Those can point the same direction, they

often don't more In a moment. On Friday, we brought

you a bulletin. Luigi Manjone pleaded guilty in federal court

to two counts of stalking resulting in death. He told

Judge Margaret Garnett that he shot Brian Thompson in Manhattan

and Thompson died, and that he knew what he was

doing was illegal. Here's what's happened since and the shape

of what's coming. There was no plea agreement, no negotiated sentence.

He pleaded open to the full indictment, and within minutes

his lawyers filed with New York Supreme Court Justice Gregory

Caro to dismiss the state case second degree murder, the

weapons counts, all of it. Karen Friedman Agniphilo's argument outside

court one tragic event prosecuted twice and New York law

does not permit that. She said, the guilty plea triggers

the statute. The Manhattan District Attorney's office is fighting it.

Their position is that they'll litigate the motion, that the

federal sentence isn't even known yet, and that they remain

committed to seeking justice for Brian Thompson and his family.

They've argued the stalking counts and the murder count address

different harms. And now for the part I want you

to actually take away because there is a lot of

confident nonsense circulating about this. Some serious people think the

state case is finished. CNN's legal analyst Joey Jackson said flatly,

he believes the double jeopardy argument is real and the

state trial goes away because both cases arise from the

same transaction and the same facts. A former federal prosecutor,

Nama Ramani, said the federal plea may torpedo the state

murder case entirely, and went further. He said, what the

Fed should have done was dismissed their case and let

the state go first. Think about that for a second.

That's a former federal prosecutor saying the Justice Department may

have handed this defendant the exit. The federal case was

built to seek the death penalty because New York State

has no death penalty. Then Judge Garnett throughout the federal

murder count as technically flawed, and the death penalty went

with it. What was left were two stalking counts, and

those two stalking counts may now be the mechanism that

races a state murder prosecution. There's a precedent. People keep

pointing at Paul Manifort. New York state charges against him

were dismissed after his federal prosecution on exactly this kind

of ground, but nobody knows. Caro has to rule. Either

side can appeal. This could take months, and the September

eighth trial date is very likely gone regardless. And I

want to name what actually happened here, because it's a

story about institutions, not about a defendant. Two prosecution offices

wanted this case. The state had it first, The state

did most of the work. Back in February, Judge Caro

set out loud in open court that it appeared the

federal government had reneged on an agreement to let the

state go first. The defense at the time called it

a tug of war between two prosecution offices. That tug

of war is how you get here. The Feds went

in for the death penalty, lost the count that carried

it kept what was left, and the leftovers may now

dissolve the murder case. Two offices fought over who got

to punish this man, and the fight itself may be

what limits the punishment. Nobody planned that everybody involved was

doing what looked right from inside their own building. So

where does that leave things. Manjoni is a convicted felon

who admitted killing a man he faces up to life

and his sentence December eighteenth. Prosecutors put the guideline range

at roughly twenty four to thirty years, though Garnett isn't

bound by it, he is not walking away from this.

What the statecase would add is the word murder and

a sentence that could run consecutively. That's what's being fought over.

Brian Thompson was fifty years old. His family said Friday

that the plea is an important step, that nothing eases

losing him, and that they're now looking to the court

to make the sentence match the crime. They said they

remain mindful that proceedings in New York and Pennsylvania are

still to come. That's a family asking for the case

to go forward. Remember that when you see the analysy.

Now Las Vegas this morning at nine point thirty, opening

statements begin in the murder trial of Dwayne Davis sixty

three in the killing of Tupac Shakur. The jury is

seated twelve jurors, four alternates, ten women, and six men.

It took four days and more than one hundred Clark

County residents to get there. A self improvement coach, a

mailman The youngest juror seated is twenty one years old,

born nine years after Tupac Shakur was killed, and he

told the court he listens to Tupac when he wants

a West Coast feel. Think about that, a man died

in nineteen ninety six and his music is still recruiting

people who weren't alive for it. The courtroom during selection

was full of people in Tupac shirts, some with Tupac tattoos.

By day two, the court had posted a sign banning clothing, hats, buttons,

or pins, referencing the case. Getting a seat required showing

up an hour early and waiting. One of the people

in that room was Darryl Harper, a former Death Row

producer who knew Shakor and flew in from Georgia. He

said it was important to be there, that he wanted

fans to know he was still supporting Tupac, And then

he said the thing that I think is the most

decent sentence anybody has said about this case. He said

he wants justice, but he also wants them to have

the right person. He said he doesn't want them grabbing

just anyone so they can say they solve the Tupac case.

That's a friend of the victim insisting on due process

for the defendant. Hold that up against the internet for

a minute. Here's what's coming. Prosecutors expect thirty five to

forty five witnesses, running from people who saw Shakur in

his last moments to associates of both men. Soog Knight,

who was driving the car and is serving twenty eight

years in an unrelated case, is on the witness list

and has said repeatedly he wants nothing to do with this.

He is the only surviving person who was in that BMW.

Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo is also expected on that list.

He responded to the scene as a Las Vegas police

sergeant in the nineties, which tells you how long ago

this was. The cop who worked the scene is now

the governor of the state. Sean Combs, will not be called.

Attorneys have confirmed that Davis named him in the memoir.

Combs has denied any involvement and has never been charged

in connection with Shakur's death. Davis is charged with first

degree murder with a deadly weapon with intent to promote

or assist a criminal gang. He has pleaded not guilty

and is presumed innocent. His memoir and his prior police

interviews are coming in as evidence. His position now is

that the book was fiction. He faces life if convicted,

and he's already waived his right to be sentenced by

the jury, So if it comes to that, Judge Carly

Kearney alone decides four to five weeks starting this morning.

Tupac Amaru Shakur was twenty five years old. He sold

more than seventy five million records. He has been dead

for almost thirty years, and no one has ever been

convey of anything for it. Someone has to say his name,

do better. Three stories Today in Plymouth, the Commonwealth put

Lindsay Clancy's journal and device data in front of the jury,

including a note modified the day before her children died,

saying prescription medication stole her from her own body. Kevin

Reddington established that a suicide method search came from her

husband's computer while she was out of the house, and

walked the jury through searches for hallucinations and intrusive thoughts

that the state had passed over. Clancy has pleaded not

guilty and is presumed innocent. Testimony resumes this morning and

the Commonwealth is close to resting. In New York, Luigi

Manngone pleaded guilty Friday to two federal stalking counts with

no plea agreement and immediately moved to dismiss the state

murder case on double jeopardy grounds. Judge Gregory Caro will decide.

Federal sentencing is December eighteenth. Thompson was fifty years old

and in Las Vegas this morning opening statements in the

murder trial of Dwayne Davis in the killing of Tupac Shakur.

Davis has pleaded not guilty. If this show is worth

your time, send it to one person. That's how this

thing has grown, and it's the only way it grows.

And if you're listening on Spotify, drop a comment. I

want to hear where you land on the bows because

I know some of you are going to think I

got that one wrong, and I want to hear why. Tomorrow,

whatever Plymouth and Las Vegas give us. I'm Garrett Fischer.

This is Daily Crime and Justice from Calaroga Shark Media. Disclaimer.

This program covers active criminal proceedings and is based on

court testimony, court filings, and reporting available at the time

of recording. Lindsey Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three

counts of first degree murder and is presumed innocent. She

has acknowledged causing her children's deaths and asserts she was

not criminally responsible. Dan Davis has pleaded not guilty and

is presumed innocent. Luigi Mangioni has pleaded guilty to two

federal counts, but has not been convicted of murder in

any jurisdiction and remains presumed innocent as depending charges in

New York and Pennsylvania, no jury has ruled in the

Clancy or Davis matters. In the Clancy trial, journal entries

and search history described here were read into the record

by the prosecution and paraphrase for broadcast. The characterization of

what any entry means is contested by the parties and

is a question for the jury. Nothing said here is

a finding about the quality of any provider's care. Several

treating providers are named defendants in civil suits that have

not been tried and deny wrongdoing. Criticism of prosecutors described

in this program comes from social media users and from

defense attorneys not involved in the case speaking to Court TV.

No court has found any impropriety by the prosecution, and

no motion for guarding courtroom attire has been reported. Commentary

about Assistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham's attire reflects opinions offered publicly.

Her reasons for wearing a bow have not been stated

by her on the record, and the connection to opening

statement testimony about Cora clancy is an inference drawn by commentators,

including us. In the Mangione matter, no ruling has been

made on the defense motion to dismiss the state charges.

Predictions about the outcome quoted here are the opinions of

legal analysts not involved in the case. Reporting differs on

the exact framing of Council's remarks outside court. Sean Combs

has denied involvement in Tupac Shakur's death and has not

been charged in connection with it. Attorneys have said he

will not be called as a witness. Reporting varies on

the expected trial length given as three, four or five

weeks by different outlets, and on the number of witnesses,

given as roughly thirty five to forty five. This episode

discusses postpartimental illness, suicide, the deaths of children, and gun violence.

If you are struggling with postpartum mood symptoms. The National

Maternal Mental Health Hotline is free, confidential and available around

the clock. Call or text one eight three three tl CMAMA.

If you are having thoughts of suicide, call or text

nine eight eight to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.