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🔎 Daily True Crime Stories | Unsolved Mysteries | Criminal Investigations | Cold Cases True Crime Today is your go-to daily true crime podcast, bringing you the latest murder cases, ongoing trials, criminal psychology insights, and shocking unsolved mysteries. Whether it’s breaking crime news, high-profile trials, serial killers, missing persons, or cold cases, we cover it all with expert analysis, investigative storytelling, and real-time updates. 🎙️ Hosted by leading crime analysts, we uncover the psychology of killers, forensic breakthroughs, police investigations, and courtroom drama—giving you the full story behind the headlines. From notorious cases to little-known crimes that deserve attention, we break down what really happened and why. If you're obsessed with true crime podcasts, criminal psychology, and investigative reporting, subscribe to True Crime Today on Apple Podcasts now! 🎧 New episodes daily.

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  1. 6h ago

    Why Fernandez's Lawyer Almost Fell Out of His Chair

    The most revealing moment of closing arguments in Mario Fernandez's murder trial wasn't a piece of evidence. It was defense attorney Jesse Dreicer telling the jury he almost fell out of his chair. Prosecutor Stifler, he said, had claimed Fernandez moved $50,000 from Shanna Gardner's account to his own after the killing. Dreicer walked the jury back through Detective Johns' financial testimony and said the records showed only two small transfers. Dreicer spent over two hours dismantling the prosecution's circumstantial web. He played a recorded phone call where Fernandez praised Tenon for handyman work eleven months after the murder — captured without Fernandez's knowledge — and called it the strongest proof the checks were for legitimate labor. He pointed out that investigators found six 10mm Glocks at a single pawn shop and never checked whether any connected to the case. He reminded the jury that Tenon is alive, could have testified, and the prosecution chose not to call him. The prosecution's rebuttal came down to one frame. Fernandez is connected to every thread of evidence. His phone went dark during the hour of the murder. He wiped it after Tenon's arrest. He never called Shanna when police announced they'd caught the killer. Either all of that is coincidence, the prosecutor argued, or it's guilt. The jury begins deliberations Wednesday. END_LINKSListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod DISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS#JaredBridegan #MarioFernandez #ShannaGardner #BrideganTrial #ClosingArguments #HenryTenon #JacksonvilleBeach #MurderForHire #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime

    Why Fernandez's Lawyer Almost Fell Out of His Chair

  2. 8h ago

    Lindsay Clancy's Lawyer Read Her Search History Out Loud

    Lindsay Clancy: Conspiracy and Confusion is the full three-segment run, fifteen comments from this channel checked against the trial record, with the carotid artery search her own lawyer showed the jury as the opening. What's at stake in the verdict comes first. First-degree murder in Massachusetts means mandatory life without parole. Not criminally responsible means commitment to a state hospital with periodic reviews, and Lindsay has already been at Tewksbury since May 2023. The burden is on the prosecution to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she could appreciate the wrongfulness of what she did or control it. Judge Sullivan read that two-part test to the jury. Then the comments. Whether she did it: a rope with no exhibit behind it, and window blood the State Police analyst classified as contact stains. A handedness theory with zero testimony, a mistress absent from every filing, and a Europe trip that came after her 911-call admission. Patrick, meanwhile, is on a pharmacy camera while his wife is dialing him from home. Whether she was in her right mind: a Yates search missing from the extraction next to a Yates conversation a coworker swore to. A psychosis-doesn't-switch-off argument answered by a Commonwealth witness. A lawyer question asked through a breathing tube. And the diagnoses that exist, bipolar from both sides, major depression from the prosecution, psychosis from the defense. Patrick: the May 2023 relocation, the five-word answer on bipolar, a profiler with no Bureau history, thirteen medications listed in his own complaint, and his December 2022 phone calls with dates attached. She admits she killed her children. Her lawyer isn't blaming Patrick. Everything else, comment by comment, gets the record. END LINKSListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod DISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS#LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #LindsayClancyTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #AndreaYates #Duxbury #TrueCrimePodcast #ClancyTrial

    Lindsay Clancy's Lawyer Read Her Search History Out Loud

  3. 10h ago

    Keffe D's Gang Title Just Came Out In Court?!

    On Day 7 of the Tupac Shakur murder trial, a former gang detective told the jury what Duane "Keffe D" Davis's rank inside the South Side Compton Crips actually was. He explained what that rank means for who gives the orders. Robert Ladd, who spent years tracking the gang as part of Compton's two-man gang unit, identified Davis by a specific title in the hierarchy. He testified about Orlando Anderson's initiation, gang codes of respect, and what happens when a high-ranking member feels disrespected. The prosecution used Ladd to bridge a gap: Davis didn't fire the gun, but his position in the gang tells you whose decision it was. Greenidge, Tupac's childhood friend, corroborated where the shots came from — the back seat, not the front where Davis sat. Three analysts also walked the jury through Davis's Henderson home search from September 2023. Among the items recovered: his own memoir and newspaper clippings about the night Tupac was killed, stored for nearly three decades. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #TupacShakur #KeffeD #HiddenKillers #TupacTrial #DuaneDavis #2Pac #TrueCrime #LasVegas #DeathRowRecords #JusticeForTupac

    Keffe D's Gang Title Just Came Out In Court?!

  4. 13h ago

    Lindsay Clancy Trial: Reddington Rips Apart FBI Witness's Untested Claims

    An FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit psychiatrist spent today's session in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial getting picked apart on cross-examination, and it wasn't pretty. Dr. Gregory Saathoff testified in the case of the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and attorney Kevin Reddington is arguing she was in the grip of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication. Reddington's cross-examination exposed how much of Saathoff's account rested on secondhand information. On the 911 call, Saathoff admitted he heard only grunts from Clancy — not the statement about trying to kill herself, which came from Patrick Clancy's testimony. The claim that Clancy crushed pills also traced back to Patrick, with nothing tested to verify it, leaving Reddington to ask how the empty bottles wound up in a drawer if no one checked. Saathoff acknowledged psychosis can produce false memories and distorted recollection of events. He also revealed he never personally tried to speak with Clancy's mother, relying entirely on the DA's office telling him she was unwilling — he didn't ask Reddington for access either. On redirect, ADA Jennifer Sprague had him walk through his postpartum psychosis experience, including two patients who became psychotic on a drug that's since been discontinued, and he called Dr. Tufts' treatment of Clancy appropriate. Prosecutors maintain Clancy understood the nature of her actions. She allegedly attempted suicide afterward by jumping from a second-story window and is now paralyzed from the waist down. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court.Links Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags #LindsayClancy #DuxburyTragedy #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #PlymouthCounty #CoraDawsonCallan #InsanityDefense #KevinReddington #TrueCrimeToday #Breaking

    Lindsay Clancy Trial: Reddington Rips Apart FBI Witness's Untested Claims

  5. 14h ago

    Lindsay Clancy's Expert Called Her a Grieving Mother and Then Said What

    An FBI forensic psychiatrist found a crack in the voice that Lindsay Clancy says told her to kill her children — and it starts with a bowl of chicken nuggets on a couch. Gregory Saathoff, a senior psychiatrist for the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, testified on August 25 that Clancy told him she was at the refrigerator preparing chicken nuggets for the children when Patrick called and the voice began. Patrick told Saathoff the children were already eating. Crime scene photographs showed a bowl on the couch. Saathoff called the discrepancy "a cause for significant concern" and identified a second inconsistency — Clancy gave different timelines for when the voice started to two separate evaluators, a gap of roughly twenty minutes. Earlier in the day, prosecution expert Kirk Heilbrun completed his testimony with a collision the jury will carry into deliberations. He told the courtroom Clancy is a grieving mother who tried hard to get help and is not self-centered — then testified she's criminally responsible. Reddington spent the cross exposing his $54,000 bill and his last encounter with postpartum psychosis in 1982. Heilbrun didn't move. Closing arguments expected Thursday. END_LINKSListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod DISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #DuxburyMassachusetts #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #InsanityDefense #MaternalMentalHealth #TrueCrimeToday

    Lindsay Clancy's Expert Called Her a Grieving Mother and Then Said What

  6. 15h ago

    Lindsay Clancy Trial: Defense Exposes Gaps in FBI Psychiatrist's Testimony

    The Lindsay Clancy murder trial, unfolding in Plymouth Superior Court, moved into a rough patch for the prosecution today. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is accused of strangling her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 7 months — with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She's pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, and attorney Kevin Reddington is running an insanity defense centered on severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication. On cross-examination, Reddington went straight at the credibility of the state's expert. Dr. Gregory Saathoff, a forensic psychiatrist with FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit ties, had testified Clancy understood right from wrong and was criminally responsible despite a bipolar II diagnosis. Under questioning, he acknowledged he wasn't retained until January or February of 2026, more than three years after the killings, and said he had no idea what his university employer was paid for his time on the case. Reddington also got him to acknowledge a pattern: his expert testimony history runs almost entirely for prosecutors, prisons, and universities — not for defendants. The most uncomfortable stretch came over homicidal ideation. Saathoff confirmed Clancy had told her husband and mother about it directly. But asked whether she'd raised dark, intrusive thoughts of suicide and homicidal ideation with doctors and others more broadly, he wouldn't agree that the homicidal ideation part reached that far — even while admitting she repeatedly sought help and told doctors about dark and suicidal thoughts. Nobody, it turns out, ever asked her the one question that might matter most: were these just thoughts, or voices. Clancy is paralyzed from the waist down after her own alleged suicide attempt. Husband Patrick Clancy, absent from the home that day, now lives in Manhattan. The trial continues.Links Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags #LindsayClancy #DuxburyTragedy #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #PlymouthCounty #ExpertWitness #InsanityDefense #KevinReddington #CrossExamination #Breaking

    Lindsay Clancy Trial: Defense Exposes Gaps in FBI Psychiatrist's Testimony

  7. 17h ago

    Lindsay Clancy Trial: Expert Says Voice Never Named a Method or Room

    The murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the 34-year-old Duxbury, Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 7 months — with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023, moved into expert psychiatric testimony this week. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and is mounting an insanity defense built around severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication, argued by attorney Kevin Reddington. The prosecution called in serious firepower: Dr. Gregory Saathoff, a forensic psychiatrist who's worked with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit. His testimony cut in a specific direction — he said the voice Clancy described hearing never instructed her on how or where to kill her children. That distinction matters more than it sounds like it should in an insanity case; prosecutors want jurors to see agency where the defense wants them to see command hallucinations. Saathoff also walked the jury through what he called a sense of "burdensomeness" — Clancy believing she was a drain on her family, that returning to work wasn't realistic, that the finances didn't work with her in the picture. He called her suicide attempt "very, very serious," citing the multiple methods she tried as evidence of real intent, not a cry for help. He diagnosed bipolar II as the best fit for her condition and confirmed she was suffering from a mental disease at the time — but then testified she understood right from wrong and was criminally responsible regardless. Clancy survived her own suicide attempt by jumping from a second-story window and is now paralyzed from the waist down. Husband Patrick Clancy, out running errands during the killings, has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court, expected to run several more weeks.Links Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags #LindsayClancy #DuxburyTragedy #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #PlymouthCounty #BipolarII #InsanityDefense #KevinReddington #FBIProfiler #Breaking

    Lindsay Clancy Trial: Expert Says Voice Never Named a Method or Room

  8. 18h ago

    Why A Coworker Told Lindsay Clancy About Andrea Yates

    If Lindsay Clancy was truly psychotic, why would she care whether Patrick was home? That's the question in this comment section, and it's the prosecution's argument, so it deserves the record's answer. Prosecutors allege she timed the errand. Patrick Clancy testified she asked him to add the CVS stop as he was walking out, and texted the product name around 5:15. Both facts are in evidence. Whether that adds up to premeditation is the jury's call, and the prosecution's own witness, Dr. Sejal Shah, agreed a person in psychosis can still communicate and plan. Her account of that night comes through three witnesses. Zeizel, Cavanaugh, and Mack all testified she described a male voice telling her she had no choice and had to kill the children and then herself. That's her claim, and prosecutors contest it. It's also the exact sequence she was on when Patrick found her in the yard. Another comment bets on OCPD. No expert who testified diagnosed it. The record has bipolar disorder from experts on both sides, major depression from Mack, and postpartum psychosis from the defense only. Then there's the coworker. Margaret Hamp testified she told Lindsay about Andrea Yates during Lindsay's first year on the unit, because a pregnant patient had come in planning to hurt herself. Lindsay had never heard the name. Her reaction is on the record and it opens this segment. Five comments about whether Lindsay was in her right mind, each checked against the doctors, the nurse practitioner, the therapist, and the standard the judge gave the jury. The psychosis fight is real. It's happening between experts, and the comment section is a long way behind them. END LINKSListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod DISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS#LindsayClancy #AndreaYates #HiddenKillers #PostpartumPsychosis #InsanityDefense #LindsayClancyTrial #TrueCrime #Duxbury #TrueCrimePodcast #ClancyTrial

    Why A Coworker Told Lindsay Clancy About Andrea Yates
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