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The jury in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial has been unable to reach a unanimous verdict after days of deliberation at Plymouth Superior Court. Judge William Sullivan read them the Tuey-Rodriguez instruction—Massachusetts' charge for a deadlocked jury—and sent them back. They remained stuck.This jury heard more than eighty witnesses over five weeks. They saw three hundred exhibits. They listened to psychiatric experts called by both sides who examined the same defendant and reached opposite conclusions. The prosecution's team testified that Clancy was not psychotic on January 24, 2023. The defense's team said she was. Both had credentials, both had data, and both told the jury completely different things.Twelve regular people were asked to resolve that dispute. None of them have psychiatric training. The jury appears unable to determine which team of doctors told them the truth.The defense conceded the facts. Clancy killed her three children. Kevin Reddington put the case entirely on criminal responsibility—and in Massachusetts, the prosecution must prove sanity beyond a reasonable doubt. The jury's deadlock suggests they cannot agree on whether the state cleared that bar.Lindsay Clancy remains charged and held at Tewksbury State Hospital. If a mistrial is declared, Plymouth County DA Timothy Cruz decides whether to retry the case.Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis examines the deadlock, what it reveals about the limits of the jury system in psychiatric cases, and what comes next.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/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis 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.#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #HiddenKillers #EricFaddis #HungJury #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #MurderTrial #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast

Shavaun Scott is a psychotherapist who has spent her career studying how coercive controllers operate. She says JP Miller's case follows the documented clinical progression stage by stage — from the selection of a target inside a faith community, through total dependency, surveillance, and the weaponizing of a woman's mental health records against her, to the moment research identifies as the deadliest: when a woman attempts to leave.This is the full three-part conversation covering the entire arc of the Mica Miller case and the Netflix documentary Death of the Pastor's Wife. Scott addresses every mechanism — and what JP's conduct since Mica's death reveals about personality structure. He returned to the pulpit under a new church name. He married a congregant within twelve months. Her previous husband is dead.JP has pleaded not guilty to federal cyberstalking. Trial is October 2026.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/tonybpodThis 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.#MicaMiller #JPMiller #DeathOfThePastorsWife #ShavaunScott #SolidRockChurch #CoerciveControl #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Netflix #PsychologicalHomicide

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott says the two days between the divorce filing and Mica Miller's death are not a coincidence to a clinician. Scott explains why separation triggers what she calls a narcissistic crisis — and walks through a concept most people outside the mental health field have never encountered: psychological homicide. The theory that sustained coercive control can push someone past the threshold of psychological survival.JP was verified to be in Charleston on the day Mica died. He has not been charged in connection with her death. Twelve months later he married Suzie Skinner, a former parishioner. Suzie's first husband — a wheelchair-bound Army veteran who had become a motivational speaker — was found in a neighborhood pool in 2021. His death has been reopened by the coroner's office. Scott addresses what the clinical literature says about rapid partner replacement in coercive controllers and what it reveals about the underlying personality structure.JP has pleaded not guilty to federal cyberstalking and false statements. Trial is October 2026.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/tonybpodThis 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.#MicaMiller #JPMiller #DeathOfThePastorsWife #ShavaunScott #SuzieSkinner #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Netflix #PsychologicalHomicide #CoerciveControl

The federal indictment says JP Miller contacted Mica more than fifty times in one day, put trackers on her car, and distributed a intimate image without her consent. When Mica reported these things to police, JP allegedly had an explanation ready: she was bipolar, she was off her medication, she was having an episode. Officers responded to her reports and heard his version.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott says this is a documented tactic — an abuser deliberately provokes a trauma response, then presents that response as proof the victim is unwell. Scott calls it pathologizing the victim, and she explains what it does to a woman who is already terrified: it teaches her that asking for help makes things worse.JP has pleaded not guilty to federal cyberstalking and making false statements. Trial is October 2026. He has not been charged in Mica's death.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/tonybpodThis 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.#MicaMiller #JPMiller #DeathOfThePastorsWife #ShavaunScott #CoerciveControl #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Netflix #MicasLaw #CyberstalkerPastor

Most people covering the Mica Miller case have never mentioned the name Logan Ryan Hardee. He is JP Miller's oldest son. Conway, South Carolina police charged him with first-degree domestic violence in January 2024 after a woman was found semiconscious with injuries from a glass bottle. Five weeks later Mica told a dispatcher Hardee had made an unwanted advance when JP was away. Eight days after that she reported him tailing her vehicle.Hardee faces no charges involving Mica. But he occupies the third layer of a family record that spans half a century. His grandfather Reginald Wayne Miller — the founder of the ministry in 1972 — was convicted of federal labor fraud, arrested at a state park bathhouse, and defaulted on two civil suits alleging he enabled alleged misconduct with minors. Reginald pleaded guilty to receiving stolen goods in August 2026 on the day his jury trial was scheduled. His ex-wife said under oath that his need for control extended deep into the congregation.JP's first wife swore that JP confessed and pointed to his own father. JP denies all allegations and has pleaded not guilty to federal cyberstalking. The ministry has operated under at least four names. It remains open.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/tonybpodThis 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.#MicaMiller #JPMiller #JohnPaulMiller #LoganHardee #SolidRockChurch #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Netflix #DeathOfThePastorsWife #CoerciveControl

For eighteen years, Keffe D has told anyone who would listen that Diddy offered a million dollars for the killing of Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight. He told LAPD detectives in a recorded 2008 proffer session. He told a BET camera crew. He wrote it in a memoir. Combs has repeatedly denied any involvement, and law enforcement has stated he was never a suspect. The gap between accusation and action comes down to one thing: the people who could independently verify Davis's account are all dead. The alleged intermediary, Eric "Zip" Martin, died from cancer. The alleged triggerman was killed two years after the murder. The other two men in the white Cadillac died in the years between. Davis is the last person alive from the chain he described. He is also on trial for murder, where his own defense attorney told a jury he invented everything for fame and money. A conviction or acquittal would each reshape the allegation — but neither produces the missing corroboration.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/tonybpodThis 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 #Diddy #KeffeD #TrueCrimeToday #SeanCombs #TupacMurderTrial #TrueCrime #ColdCase #MurderConspiracy #Corroboration

On July 2nd, 2025, Bryan Kohberger stood in the Ada County Courthouse and pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree murder for killing University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. The judge asked if he was guilty. He said yes. Asked if anyone coerced him. No. Asked if he was promised anything. No. Three weeks later, he declined to explain why he did it.One year after that, Kohberger filed a handwritten petition from prison claiming he was "convinced to falsely confess" by his own defense attorneys. He offered no new evidence. He didn't establish that any threats or promises were made. A judge granted him an evidentiary hearing anyway — June 17th, 2027.Now his court-appointed legal team has added a New York attorney, Jason Goldman, who told PEOPLE magazine that the public should "caution against assuming" it knows the complete story. The public record includes phone data showing Kohberger near the victims' home twenty-three times before the killings, his DNA on a knife sheath left at the scene, a car cleaned spotless after the murders, and a thumbs-up selfie taken the morning after four people were stabbed to death in their beds. The Goncalves family called Kohberger a "narcissist" who got a deal that spared his life and now hates that life.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/tonybpodThis 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.#BryanKohberger #Kohberger #TrueCrimeToday #IdahoMurders #TrueCrime #KohbergerCase #UniversityOfIdaho #MoscowIdaho #KohbergerPlea #CrimePodcast

The families sat in the same gallery for five weeks at Plymouth Superior Court. Patrick Clancy's side and Lindsay's parents — Michael and Paula Musgrove — watched over eighty witnesses testify about the deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries was in the room for every session.Bob joins Tony Brueski to describe what the broadcast could not capture. He walks through the jury's visible reactions during the prosecution's most difficult evidence — the autopsy testimony, the crime scene descriptions, and ADA Jennifer Sprague's closing argument about how Lindsay used exercise bands on each child separately. Nine women and three men sat through all of it. Bob describes what their faces looked like.He also describes Lindsay's in-person appearance and behavior throughout the trial — the moments she was composed, the moments she was not, and how she responded to specific testimony about her children. Bob addresses the gallery tension during recesses: the tension between the families, the energy between the legal teams, and the silence that filled the hallways when court was not in session.There was a moment when the entire room shifted in one direction. Bob identifies it and explains what it told him about where the case was headed.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/tonybpodThis 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.#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #BobMotta #TrueCrime #PlymouthCourt #PostpartumPsychosis #HiddenKillers #MurderTrial #DefenseDiaries #Courtroom

The prosecutor told the jury Lindsay Clancy left her children on the basement floor with exercise bands still around their necks and called them broken toys. The defense attorney held up a honeymoon wish jar and told the jury the prosecution ripped the soul out of a woman destroyed by thirteen psychiatric medications.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski for a three-part verdict-watch interview covering the prosecution, the defense, and what could happen next. They disagree on this case and every question is a place where their reads collide.The prosecution's own expert Kirk Heilbrun called the killings out of love — a serious suicide attempt where Clancy could not bear to leave the children behind. Defense expert Phillip Resnick called her a puppet. The voice she described appeared once, lasted eighteen minutes, and vanished the moment the children were dead.Nine women and three men are deliberating at Plymouth Superior Court. Five verdict options. First-degree carries life without parole. Not criminally responsible means a psychiatric facility with periodic reviews.Andrea Yates received that verdict twenty years ago. She is still in a state hospital.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/tonybpodThis 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.#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #TrueCrimeToday #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #VerdictWatch #ClosingArguments #MurderTrial #MaternalMentalHealth

Nine women and three men walked into the deliberation room. Three and a half hours. No verdict. Five options sit on those slips — first-degree murder, second-degree murder, manslaughter, not criminally responsible, or not guilty.First-degree carries life in prison without parole. Not criminally responsible means commitment to a psychiatric facility — not release. Andrea Yates has been in a state hospital for twenty years after receiving that verdict in a postpartum case.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski as the jury deliberates. They disagree on this case and dig into the verdict options, the jury composition, and what happens if those twelve people can't agree.The judge added manslaughter at the defense's request — up to twenty years instead of life. Clancy has already spent three and a half years at Tewksbury Hospital, paralyzed from the waist down after her suicide attempt. Patrick Clancy's wrongful death lawsuit against her providers is filed.Every mother who ever had a dark thought after having a baby is watching what nine women decide next.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/tonybpodThis 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.#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #TrueCrimeToday #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #VerdictWatch #JuryDeliberations #MurderTrial #MaternalMentalHealth

Lindsay Clancy told evaluators a male voice appeared for the first time on the afternoon of January 24, 2023. The voice told her this was her last chance — kill the children and then herself. It lasted roughly eighteen minutes. It stopped the moment the children were dead. She has not reported hearing it since.The prosecution's own expert Gregory Saathoff called that pattern unusual. Command hallucinations do not typically appear once and vanish. Defense experts Paul Zeizel and Phillip Resnick both testified the voice was consistent with postpartum psychosis. Resnick called Clancy a puppet and categorized the killings as altruistic filicide — killing out of a belief she was protecting her children from suffering without her.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski as the jury deliberates in Plymouth Superior Court. They disagree on this case and dig into what the defense actually proved — and whether a jury of nine women and three men can convict after hearing it.Reddington blamed the medications and the doctors. Sprague blamed the woman who made a choice. The jury is deciding which version they believe.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/tonybpodThis 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.#LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #TrueCrimeToday #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #VerdictWatch #CommandHallucination #MurderTrial #JuryDeliberations

Mental health conditions are now the leading killer of new mothers in the United States. The CDC puts the number at nearly twenty-three percent of all pregnancy-related deaths, ahead of hemorrhage, ahead of heart failure. Over eighty percent were preventable. One in five mothers gets screened for depression after delivery.Those numbers sit behind the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy at Plymouth Superior Court. Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, killed her three young children at their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023, less than three weeks after being released from a psychiatric facility. Prosecutors and her defense team agree she was mentally ill. The jury is weighing whether she was too ill to understand her actions.Her defense rests on postpartum psychosis, a psychiatric emergency affecting roughly one to two mothers per thousand births. Despite the name, clinicians describe it as a mood disorder that arrives fast and disguises itself as ordinary postpartum fatigue. Bipolar history and prior episodes are the clearest warning signs, both screenable before delivery. With early treatment the acute crisis resolves in weeks.Forensic psychiatrist Phillip Resnick testified for Clancy's defense. He also testified for Andrea Yates, who drowned her five children in 2001 and was ultimately found not guilty by reason of insanity. Meghan Cliffel, a postpartum psychosis survivor from 2015, questions why the system waits for dead children before it pays attention.END_LINKS: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/tonybpodDISCLAIMER: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 #LindsayClancyTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #HiddenKillers #MaternalMentalHealth #PostpartumDepression #TrueCrime #MentalHealthAwareness #LindsayClancyVerdict #PlymouthSuperiorCourt

Bryan Kohberger's post-conviction petition earned an evidentiary hearing — set for June 17, 2027 before Judge Steven Hippler. Prosecutors tried to get it dismissed without a hearing and failed. But the hearing is the system working as designed, not a signal that Kohberger's claims carry weight.The petition accuses his former defense team of coercing a false confession, withholding hair evidence from Ethan Chapin's hand, and making promises about prison conditions that never came true. All of this runs headfirst into a nine-page questionnaire Kohberger signed under oath confirming his plea was voluntary and that no outside promises influenced his decision.Criminal defense attorney David Gelman says post-sentencing plea reversals are extraordinarily rare. Northeastern law professor Daniel Medwed called it a monumental uphill battle. Even a successful withdrawal puts the death penalty back on the table and sends Kohberger to trial carrying his own sworn confession.Digital forensics expert Sy Ray — retained by Kohberger's own defense team before the plea — responded to the petition by going public with claims of additional incriminating cellphone data and calling for a new trial with the death penalty restored. Kohberger cited Ray's work in his petition. Ray's answer: put the former defense attorneys under oath and try this case again.LinksListen 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/tonybpodDisclaimerThis 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#BryanKohberger #SyRay #TrueCrimeToday #KohbergerHearing #IdahoMurders #UniversityOfIdaho #KohbergerPetition #AnneTaylor #JudgeHippler #TrueCrime