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The defense in the Matthew Farwell case is building its strategy around Sandra Birchmore's mental health records, her journals, and her history of instability. They want the jury to see a woman who killed herself. Prosecutors want the jury to see a twelve-year-old girl who walked into a police youth program and spent the next decade being exploited by men in uniform.
Four officers connected to the Stoughton Police Department had involvement with Sandra. Prosecutors allege Farwell was the first, beginning when she was fifteen. He allegedly tracked her location, made her delete texts, and sent at least twenty messages in the year before her death describing choking her by the throat. His DNA was the major contributor on the ligature found around her neck. The state crime lab identified unknown male DNA in 2021 but never obtained Farwell's sample. The FBI matched it three years later.
A strangulation expert found Sandra's hyoid bone fractured with zero documented cases of that injury in women found seated. Abrasions on her nose, hemorrhage in a neck muscle, a broken necklace on the bedroom floor. The original investigation ruled it suicide before the autopsy. The ME wasn't told it might be a homicide.
Before her death, Sandra booked prenatal appointments and planned to announce her pregnancy on Valentine's Day. Farwell had attended a training on staging versus suicide in hanging deaths. The defense says Sandra's damage proves she killed herself. The prosecution says the damage proves what was done to her.
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Lindsay Clancy's trial lasted six weeks in Plymouth Superior Court. The jury deadlocked eleven to one. Judge Sullivan declared a mistrial September 4. While the jury was still deliberating, the internet had already moved on to its own verdict — and Patrick Clancy was the defendant.
The conspiracy theories accused Patrick of staging the scene and killing his own children. Creators used astrology, birth charts, and livestream footage as evidence. Lindsay admitted through her defense that she killed Cora, Dawson, and Callan. Patrick was the prosecution's first witness.
A man ended a $200,000 engagement on TikTok because his fiancée said he couldn't understand postpartum illness. He called her a monster. Four million people watched.
On September 8, Patrick's attorney Howard Cooper released a statement calling the accusations a defamation campaign. Law enforcement has been notified. Lindsay's own attorney Kevin Reddington praised the conspiracy theorists after the mistrial.
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski for the full conversation — the relationships breaking, the grieving father being accused, and the fear underneath the rage that the country won't name.
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Rob and Michele Reiner spent years trying to save a son who sources say bragged about what he could get away with. They paid for treatment at a facility that reportedly charged seventy thousand dollars a month. They kept him in a guest house on their Brentwood property. They gave him ultimatum after ultimatum. According to sources, he took their money for drugs, destroyed the guest house more than once, threatened his sister, and laughed about the wreckage on a podcast. A grand jury has now added lying in wait to his murder charges — alleging he hid his intentions from the two people who trusted him most, waited for his moment, and attacked them inside their own bedroom with the intent to kill. Under California law, every piece of that charge requires a brain that is planning and choosing. Nick Reiner was diagnosed with schizophrenia and placed under a conservatorship for grave disability in 2020. His medication was switched weeks before December 14, 2025, and sources say doctors warned his parents the change could trigger worse behavior. Tony examines the lying-in-wait allegation against the full behavioral record and the comparison to Lindsay Clancy — who spent months following her doctors’ orders while her brain pulled apart underneath her. Nick Reiner has pleaded not guilty. Held without bail. Next hearing September 15.
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The Clancy mistrial declared September 4 left the legal question open. But the question that actually landed hardest has nothing to do with a retrial.
Postpartum psychosis affects roughly one to two in every thousand births. The medical community classifies it as a psychiatric emergency. Lindsay Clancy's defense team argued she was experiencing it when she killed Cora, Dawson, and Callan. The prosecution argued she acted deliberately. Twelve jurors who heard all of it couldn't agree.
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines why the Lindsay Clancy case triggers a fear response that has nothing to do with taking sides. Why the concept of a mother's brain being hijacked by biology threatens something foundational about how people understand maternal instinct and personal control. What the word "monster" does psychologically — and who it's actually protecting.
Scott also addresses mothers listening right now who have experienced intrusive thoughts they've never disclosed. When the public response to this case turns honesty into a threat, she explains what happens next to the women watching in silence.
The trial was about Lindsay Clancy's mental state. This conversation is about yours.
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Five days before the murder, Wendi Adelson's boyfriend says she told him her brother had looked into hiring a hitman. The day before, she asked him about his Friday driving route near Dan Markel's house, then told him not to contact her for a week. The morning of the killing, she was home waiting for a Geek Squad appointment that prosecutors say her mother Donna scheduled. And about an hour after the shooting, she drove past police tape at Dan's house — knowing her children were supposed to be with him — and didn't make a single call.Jeffrey Lacasse testified to all of this under oath. Wendi denied every word of it under the same oath. One of them lied, and the answer determines whether the state of Florida can charge the woman who moved the children south within days and changed their last name from Markel to Adelson.Five people are serving time for Dan Markel's murder. Wendi Adelson has been named an unindicted co-conspirator and has never been charged. This fourth installment of the Adelson series examines what Lacasse said, what Wendi denied, and the gap prosecutors haven't been able to close.
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