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Lindsay Clancy is being held at Tewksbury State Hospital, and the murder charges are the only criminal case keeping her there. On November 2nd, 2026, her lawyers asked Judge William Sullivan to dismiss those charges in the deaths of her three children in Duxbury, Massachusetts. If he does, Eric Faddis explains who decides whether she stays at Tewksbury or could end up living on her own.
Faddis, a defense attorney and former prosecutor, joins me to go through the Lindsay Clancy mistrial motion. Her trial ended in September 2026 with eleven jurors ready to find her not guilty by reason of insanity and one holdout. Clancy's lawyers argue Sullivan should have questioned that juror instead of ending the trial, and that a retrial would be double jeopardy.
Sullivan also had six alternate jurors who heard the full trial, and he didn't seat one. Clancy's lawyers say that choice is why the charges have to go. Sullivan hasn't ruled.
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Matthew Farwell isn’t one bad apple, and I talk straight to the badges around him who prove it. Stoughton’s police chief was convicted in 2009 for helping cover up a sergeant’s shakedown, and a 12-year-old Sandra Birchmore joined its police youth program the next spring. I take on Deputy Chief Robert Devine, who ran that program; William Farwell, who testified under immunity he was with Sandra on duty; and State Police Sgt. John Fanning, who William says wanted the case closed. Prosecutors allege Matthew Farwell strangled Sandra on February 1st, 2021, and staged a hanging; his lawyers say she took her own life. Closings start Friday.
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Prosecutors say Matthew Farwell strangled Sandra Birchmore with a duffel bag strap, and the state police lab found none of his DNA under her fingernails. The trooper who investigated her death in 2021 agreed on cross-examination that he saw no signs of a struggle in her room.
Eric Faddis, a defense attorney and former prosecutor, is with me to argue the prosecution's answer to every one of the defense's strongest points before closings on Friday, November 6th.
The government's case is that Farwell, a former Stoughton detective, killed Sandra in her Canton apartment on February 1st, 2021, and set the scene to look like a hanging. Farwell's lawyers say the baby wasn't his, he came to say so, and she took her own life after he was gone.
The fifth point is the strap itself. The lab linked Matthew's DNA to it and never tested his twin brother William, who testified with immunity that he'd had his own relationship with Sandra.
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A state police DNA analyst testified in the Matthew Farwell trial that the DNA on the strap around Sandra Birchmore's neck was 6.2 trillion times more likely to include Farwell than not. Prosecutors say his was the main male DNA on the end tied to the closet doorknob, the end they say he tied himself.
Eric Faddis is a defense attorney and former prosecutor. I hand him that number and the rest of the government's case, and he answers each piece the way Farwell's defense will have to on Friday, November 6th, when closings begin.
The government's theory is that Farwell, a former Stoughton detective, strangled Sandra, who was 23 and pregnant, and set the scene to look like a hanging. Farwell's lawyers say the baby wasn't his and Sandra took her own life.
Farwell told the judge November 4th he won't testify. Prosecutors say that at 7:46 that night, Sandra had texted him asking him to buy the baby's going-home outfit.
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Billy Evans runs Elizabeth Holmes's X account, posting in her name, and in You Can See Everything he says that he can do anything when he's acting as Elizabeth. She handed him power of attorney before prison.
Nathan Fielder moved into her house and stayed 34 days until she reported. She tells him she has never lied a day in her life, with an 11-year sentence for conspiracy and wire fraud already handed down.
On the stand, Holmes said Sunny Balwani, twice her age, told her she'd be safe from then on because she'd met him. In the kitchen, Billy lifts a bowl of eggs from her hands and finishes them, and Tony wants to know what that bowl was about.
Invicta, her daughter, got a name that means undefeated in Latin. Billy is raising both kids in Austin, and Holmes gets to the halfway house outside the city in 2027. Tony puts that to psychotherapist Shavaun Scott: once she's out, who's running her life?
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