GUILTY in the Murder of Tupac Shakur After Thirty Years — the Jury Took Under Three Hours, and Lindsay Clancy's Enters a Fourth Day

0:03 Calaroga Shark Media. Good morning. This is Daily Crime and Justice from Calaroga Shark Media, powered by AI. I'm Garrett Fisher. It's Tuesday, September 1st, 2026. 29 years, 11 months, and 24 days after Tupac Shakur was shot at a red light off the Las Vegas Strip, a jury took less than three hours to decide who was responsible for it. Dwayne Davis is guilty of first-degree murder. Yesterday afternoon, shortly after 4.30, a Clark County jury came back. Shakur's sister cried in the gallery. Davis' son covered his face with his hand. And Davis himself stood, sat back down, folded his hands on the table, and then raised one of them to tell the judge he wants to appeal and that he would like his phone and his laptop back.

0:55 In Plymouth, Massachusetts, the other jury is still out. Lindsey Clancy's has now spent 17 hours across three days without a verdict and goes back in this morning for a fourth. And in Georgia, prosecutors rested against Caitlin Goble in the killing of a 19 year old who vanished a decade ago. Let's get into it. Tupac Shakur was 25 years old. On the night of September 7th, 1996, he was in the passenger seat of a BMW driven by Marion Knight, stopped at a red light in Paradise, Nevada, when a white Cadillac pulled alongside and someone in the backseat opened fire.

1:36 Shakur was struck multiple times. Knight was grazed. Shakur died six days later. For 27 years, nobody was charged with anything. Yesterday, Dwayne Davis was convicted of first-degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon. He is 63. He faces up to life in prison. He is being held without bail, and Judge Carly Kearney will sentence him on October 13th. Let me walk you through how it ended, because the closings were genuinely excellent on both sides, and the speed of the verdict tells you something. Chief Deputy District Attorney Binu Palal closed for the state, and he did not oversell it. He told the jury the case was drenched in circumstantial evidence, which is a remarkable thing for a prosecutor to say out loud, and then he explained why that was enough. His argument was that Tupac Shakur took part in a public beating of Davis' nephew at the MGM Grand on camera, about two hours before the shooting. That, in Davis' world, that required an answer. That Davis acquired a handgun, gathered his group, and went hunting. Then he took on the thing the defense had been hammering for two weeks, that Davis' story changed over the years. Palau conceded it. He told the jury the account shifted because Davis' motivation shifted because at different moments he was protecting himself in different ways.

2:58 But one thing never moved. In every version across 18 years, Dwayne Davis put himself inside that Cadillac. Then Palau said the line that I think decided this case. Who fired is not the question. Because under Nevada law, it genuinely is not. If you help another person commit a murder, you can be convicted of that murder. The state never argued Davis pulled the trigger. They argued he obtained the gun, he was the ranking man in that car, and nothing happened without him. Palal also told them the shooting was planned rather than impulsive, pointing to testimony that the group searched for Shakur, spotted him, and made a U-turn. A plan, he said, not an impulse.

3:44 And he held up the memoir, Compton Street Legend. He played the video of Davis telling people to buy it to get the real truth. And he made the point that there is a difference between lying to sell a book and profiting from a murder you committed. Michael Samft closed for the defense and he did the only thing he could do, which was to stand at that podium and demand a single fact. He challenged the jury to identify anything at all outside Dwayne Davis's own mouth that put him in Las Vegas or inside that Cadillac. No surveillance, no phone records, no forensics, no murder weapon ever, despite thousands of guns tested. He pointed across the courtroom at his own client and told them the state has nothing placing that man in Las Vegas on September 7th, 1996.

4:33 His theory was that Davis invented the story in 2008 to avoid a life sentence on drug charges, then repeated pieces of the invention to sell a book. He told them they were reading fiction, not fact. He attacked the Los Angeles and Compton investigations as sloppy and biased. He asked why they never heard from Greg Kading, the former LAPD detective who conducted that 2008 interview and then wrote a book. About these murders. He asked why they never heard from Suge Knight. the man who was actually in the car. And he told them not guilty was the only verdict that made sense. At one point, reading aloud from Davis's own memoir, Sanft spoke a racial slur that appears in the text. People watching in the overflow room recoiled. Then Chief Deputy District Attorney Mark DiGiacomo got the rebuttal, and he had two things.

5:27 The first was an answer to the inconsistencies. He asked the jury whether they honestly believed a man who was foolish enough to write a book about it could have kept a fabricated story straight that many times, in that many settings, over that many years. And the second was the scrapbook. Investigators searching Davis' home found articles he had collected about Shakur's killing. DiGiacomo told the jury this man was scrapbooking his own murder. The jury went out Monday afternoon. They were back shortly after 4.30. Less than three hours. Look, I'm going to be honest with you about what that number means, because it is the whole story. Nine days of testimony. 24 prosecution witnesses. Three for the defense. Eight hours of recordings. A case that sat unsolved for 27 years that generated documentaries and conspiracy theories and a small publishing industry. And 12 people needed less than an afternoon.

6:23 That is not a jury that agonized. That is a jury that walked into a room, and one of them said some version of he told everybody for 18 years, and 11 other people nodded. There is one procedural note. Davis was charged with murder carrying a gang enhancement. After the verdict, prosecutors moved to dismiss that enhancement, citing witness logistics. The murder conviction stands. He still faces up to life. In the courtroom, there were no audible reactions when it was read. Zakiwa Shakur, Tupac's sister, cried and reached back to someone sitting behind her. His stepbrother Maurice had been there through the trial, sitting and listening to recordings of a man describing how his brother died. Family members hugged the prosecutors afterward, and Dwayne Davis raised his hand and asked for his stuff back. I want to sit with that for a second, because I think it is the most revealing thing he did in two weeks. Convicted of murdering one of the most important artists this country has produced, facing the rest of his life in a Nevada prison, and the thing he speaks up about is a phone and a laptop.

7:31 Now, the appeal. He has said he intends to file one, and there is a real issue in this case. In 2008, Davis spoke to federal investigators under a proffer agreement, which normally protects those statements. Prosecutors argued he destroyed that protection himself by publishing and broadcasting the same account for money. Kearney agreed and let it in. An appellate court will. Look at that, and it is not a frivolous question. But here is what I keep coming back to. This case was not solved by detectives. It was not solved by forensics. There is still no murder weapon, and there never will be. A retired detective testified last week that he wanted to arrest Dwayne Davis in 2009 and was told to stand down. Everyone else in that Cadillac is dead.

8:17 The man who supplied the gun is dead. The only reason there was ever a trial is that Dwayne Davis could not stop telling people what he did, because telling people paid. There's a playbook for this, and the playbook is silence. It is the oldest rule in every criminal organization on earth. He broke it for a book advance and a spot on a docuseries, and a jury in Clark County spent less than three hours deciding that was enough. Tupac Shakur was 25 years old. He was a poet, an actor, an activist's son, and one of the most gifted writers of his generation. And he bled out over six days in a Las Vegas hospital while his mother sat with him. 30 years. One conviction.

8:59 His sister cried in a courtroom yesterday because somebody finally answered for it. Someone has to say his name. When we come back, the other jury. 17 hours, three days, no verdict. and a request that tells you what they are actually arguing about. On the evening of January 24th, 2023, Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children with exercise bands in the basement of their home in Duxbury, Massachusetts. Cora was five.

9:40 Dawson was three. Callan was eight months old. Clancy then cut her wrists and her neck and went out a second-story window, severing her spine. She has been in a wheelchair ever since and has appeared in court in one every day. First, a correction, and it matters. Yesterday, I told you this jury had three doors. That was wrong. They have five. Guilty of first-degree murder. Guilty of second-degree murder. Guilty of manslaughter. Not guilty. Or not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility. I left second-degree murder out, and it is a real option with real consequences. First degree carries life without the possibility of parole. Second degree carries life with parole eligibility. Manslaughter carries a term of years.

10:28 And not criminally responsible sends her to a state psychiatric hospital under a commitment reviewed periodically for as long as she is considered mentally ill. Judge Sullivan has said that if that is the verdict, the district attorney or another authority will likely petition the court to commit her. Now, where they are. They began Thursday afternoon and went about three and a half hours. Friday, they went the full day. Monday, they went the full day again. And Sullivan sent them home just before four. 17 hours across three days. They are back this morning at nine for a fourth. As he excused them, Sullivan told them to stay the course. And I want to put that 17 hours in perspective because you just heard me talk about a jury that took under three. Those two numbers are not a comparison. They are two completely different kinds of question. The Las Vegas jury had to decide whether a man was telling the truth about himself. This jury has to decide what was happening inside another person's mind on a specific evening, with six experts contradicting each other, five verdict options, and roughly 300 exhibits.

11:39 Reddington pointed that number out to reporters yesterday. 300 exhibits and six weeks of testimony. He said they are working hard. He said they have been incredibly hardworking and attentive through the entire trial. He also said he never tries to predict a jury, which is the correct answer and also the only safe one. The one real signal we have is what they asked for. On Friday morning, about an hour in, they sent out their first question. Sullivan called a sidebar and then a recess. The question was never made public and the jury was never brought into the courtroom. But Reddington told reporters what they wanted. The bag of pills he held up during his closing argument. Other prescription bottles entered into evidence. And the knife she used on herself. All of it went back to.

12:25 The jury room. Now, reading a jury from an evidence request is guesswork, and half the people doing it on television this week know that. But you can say this honestly. They did not ask for the exercise bands. They did not ask for the autopsy photographs. They did not ask for the phone timeline that was the spine of the Commonwealth's case. They asked for medication and for the instrument of her suicide attempt. Those are the two pillars of the defense. The pills go to the argument that she was over-prescribed and repeatedly re-prescribed by providers who never ran a blood panel, and that the drugs altered a mind already failing. The knife goes to what she was actually trying to do that night, which is the difference between a woman executing a plan and a woman trying to die who could not imagine leaving her children behind. That is not a verdict and it is not a prediction. It does suggest 12 people working inside the defense theory rather than checking the prosecution's boxes. Where they come out, nobody knows. A long deliberation is also not a hung jury. The signal that would actually matter is a note saying they are deadlocked, and that has not happened. If it does, Sullivan does not have to declare a mistrial immediately. A judge in Massachusetts can send them back with further instruction first. There is a second development, and I am going to report it carefully because the temptation to make it into something is enormous.

13:51 Dr. Avram Mack, the psychiatrist who was the prosecution's first rebuttal witness, has resigned. A spokesperson for Nemours Children's Health in Delaware confirmed to CNN he is no. Longer employed there. That is the entire verified fact. No reason has been given publicly. Nobody has connected it to his testimony. It could be about this case. It could be about something with nothing to do with any of us. I am telling you because it happened during deliberations in a case where his testimony mattered. And because you are going to see people online turn it into a scandal by tomorrow, do not let them. When we know why, we will tell you why. And then there is what Kevin Reddington said outside that courthouse yesterday morning. Asked how he was feeling, he said, typical nervous. And then he went after the coverage.

14:44 He said the weekend had been horrific. He named names, including a Fox News host and a legal commentator he called the Queen of Mean, and accused them of picking apart his clients' symptoms and misrepresenting facts. And then he said, These things hurt. These things hurt people. If you're going to be a journalist, do it right. Look, I'm going to be honest with you, because I would be a coward not to be. This show is part of the industry he is talking about. We have covered this trial every day for five weeks. We have discussed her medications, her diary, her marriage, her hallucinations, and the worst 25 minutes of her life, and we have done it for an audience. And there is money in that. So I am not going to pretend Garrett Fisher stands above the thing Kevin Reddington is describing. What I will tell you is the standard we have tried to hold. We have not repeated tabloid claims we could not verify. We have corrected ourselves on air when we got it wrong, including twice in the last week. We have refused to characterize a woman's mental illness as a performance because three prosecution experts and three defense experts all agreed she was seriously ill and the only dispute was about what kind. And we have said Cora and Dawson and Callan's names in every single episode because they are the reason any of this is a story. Whether that is enough is not for me to decide. But he is right that it hurts people, and he is right that most of this industry does not care. Cora Clancy was five years old

16:17 and in kindergarten. Dawson Clancy was three. Callan Clancy was eight months old. Twelve people are in a room this morning for a fourth day deciding what the law says about their mother. Someone has to say their names. When we come back, the state rests in Georgia, and a woman's own ex-boyfriend told a jury what she confessed on a bad night. Morgan Bauer was 19 years old. She graduated from Central High School in Aberdeen, South Dakota, and on February 12th of 2016.

17:01 She moved to the Atlanta area. She had arranged a place to stay through an online listing before she got there. That fell apart on her second day. She worked out an arrangement to clean a house in exchange for a room while she looked for something permanent. Thirteen days after she arrived in Georgia, she vanished. The last confirmed trace of her is a video posted to social media on February 26, 2016. Morgan is walking through a park in Porterdale. There is a man behind her. Her case went cold for seven years. Her mother, Sherry, kept pushing. Friends who knew her were openly afraid the case would turn into a homicide investigation. And officially, Morgan Bauer remained a girl who had walked away from a gas station and chosen not to come back. In July of 2023, with FBI assistance, Investigators searched a property on Broad Street near the Yellow River in Porterdale, and they found her remains. Two people were arrested that August, Jonathan Alexander Warren in Los Angeles and Caitlin Goebel in Peoria, Illinois.

18:04 They had been the last two people seen with Morgan Bauer, and for seven years they had told everyone, including Morgan's mother, that they dropped her at a gas station and never saw her again. In January of 2024, Warren pleaded guilty. not to a reduced charge. He entered a non-negotiated plea to malice murder and to the other counts against him, including an offense involving the abuse of Morgan's body after her death, which I am not going to describe further. He asked the judge for life with the possibility of parole. The judge gave him life without, citing the facts of the case. He is at Macon State Prison. Caitlin Goble is 30. She has pleaded not guilty. Her trial began last Tuesday in Newton County Superior Court, and prosecutors rested their case yesterday as it moved into its second week.

18:51 Here is the shape of it. The state's theory, laid out by Assistant District Attorney Bailey Wilkinson, is that Goebel lured Morgan Bauer to the house she shared with Warren, and that the two of them strangled her. Both women were 19 at the time, and then, prosecutors say, over the course of several days, they mutilated and dismembered her body to hide what they had done. I'm going to leave the specifics there because Morgan Bower's mother is alive and does not need to hear them from me. The defense answer from attorney Mireo Lalloy is narrower than you might expect. They are not disputing that Goebel helped dispose of the body. They concede it. What they dispute is that she had any part in the killing, and their explanation for the rest is that she was terrified of her boyfriend. And then they make an argument that is genuinely difficult to dismiss. Olaloya told the jury that the only reason anyone knows what happened to Morgan Bauer at all is Kaitlyn Goebel. is the one who went to investigators in 2023. The body was found because of what she told them. That is true, and it is the strongest card the defense has. Without her, Morgan Bauer is still a missing person. The state's answer is that she came forward pointing at Warren, kept herself out of it, and only shifted when investigators caught her in contradictions. One investigator testified that when they pointed out the inconsistencies, that is when the story changed. Now, the prosecution's case, three witnesses stand out. The first is a

20:22 former Porterdale police lieutenant named Randy Downs, who was asked directly on the stand whether Caitlin Goble killed Morgan Bauer. His answer was no, she didn't. That is remarkable testimony to come out during the state's own case, and the defense will use it in closing. It also may matter less than it sounds, and I want to explain why, because this is the pivot the whole trial turns on. Georgia has a felony murder rule. If you commit certain felonies and somebody dies in the course of them, you can be convicted of murder without ever having laid a hand on the victim. Goebel is charged with malice murder, which requires intent. but she is also charged with felony murder and aggravated assault. A jury that believes she did not personally strangle Morgan Bauer can still convict her of murder.

21:11 So a former lieutenant saying she did not kill Morgan Bauer sounds like the end of the case. Legally, it is not even close to the end of the case. The second is a filmmaker named Terry Feely, who was making a documentary about Morgan Bauer's disappearance. He testified about social media messages between himself and Goebel and confirmed she told him she knew Morgan was dead and that she was partially involved in the dismemberment and the disposal of the body. And the third is the one that will follow this trial. Goebel's former boyfriend testified that she called him one night in a bad state and confessed the entire thing to him. He said she had reached her breaking point and did not want to hold it in anymore.

21:52 He testified she blamed Warren for the killing, saying it happened while she was out of the house and that she came back afterward and that he assumed Warren wanted help with the cleanup. And he testified that Caitlin Goebel said this to him, I think we got away with it. The defense case begins now and Jonathan Warren, already serving life without parole, is expected to be part of what comes. A man with a life sentence and nothing left to lose. testifying in a case where the only remaining question is how much of this the woman he lived with actually did. Take that testimony with both eyes open, whichever direction it cuts. Warren has already admitted to killing Morgan Bauer. He asked a judge for a chance at parole and was refused.

22:37 Whatever he says on that stand, he is a convicted murderer with a grievance and a calendar, and juries are entitled to weigh that. And there is one more thing hanging over this trial that I flagged when we introduced the case last week. The judge ruled before testimony that prosecutors can use global social media posts about Satanism and about serial killers to argue motive, including one made the night Morgan Bauer died. The defense called that material cosplay rather than evidence. I said last week that occult evidence in an American murder trial should make you nervous, and I meant it. This country put people in prison in the 80s and 90s over heavy metal records and role-playing games, and some of those convictions have since collapsed. Being a strange 19-year-old who posts about the Satanic Bible is evidence of being a strange 19-year-old. The narrower question, and the only one that should carry weight in that room, is whether a specific post made on a specific night means what the state says it means. That is a jury's call and not mine. Morgan Bauer was 19. She had been in the state of Georgia for 13 days.

23:48 She knew almost nobody. Her mother in South Dakota spent seven years pushing a case that had gone cold, being told her daughter walked away from a gas station. Nobody was paying attention to her. A 19-year-old girl disappears, and it takes seven years and a federal search team to find out she was a few miles away the entire time. Morgan Bauer. Someone has to say her name, and for seven years, almost nobody did. That's the show for Tuesday, September 1st. If this was useful, send it to one person. That is the whole engine here. And if you're listening on Spotify, drop a comment. One jury took under three hours. Another has taken 17 and is still going. Tell me what you think that says about the two cases, because I have my own read, and I am not confident in it.

24:37 We will be here for the rest of it. I'm Garrett Fisher. Do better. A few notes on sourcing and timing. This episode was recorded before court opened Tuesday morning. The Lindsay Clancy jury ended a third day of deliberations Monday afternoon without a verdict and was scheduled to resume Tuesday at nine. If a verdict came after we recorded, this episode does not reflect it. A correction carried in this episode. We previously described the Clancy jury as having three verdict options, It has five. First-degree murder, second-degree murder, manslaughter, not guilty, and not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility. We omitted second-degree murder on the resignation of Dr.

25:21 Avram Mack. The confirmed fact is that a hospital spokesperson has said he no longer works there. No public reason has been given and no one has established any connection between that departure and his testimonies. We are reporting it because of its timing and for no other reason, and listeners should not assume a link that has not been shown. The content of the Clancy Jury's Friday question was never disclosed publicly. Our account of what jurors requested comes from defense attorney Kevin Reddington speaking to reporters outside the courthouse, not from the court. On the Las Vegas verdict, Dwayne Davis was convicted Monday and has stated he intends to appeal. So this case is not final. Reporting has differed on details, including the caliber of the weapon and the exact witness count, and we have avoided stating figures that sources disagree on.

26:11 The gang enhancement attached to the charge was dismissed by prosecutors after the verdict. The murder conviction stands. Allegations Davis made in recorded interviews about living people, never charged in this case, remain unproven claims by a man his own attorney told the jury could not be corroborated. and the jury was instructed there is no indication he was involved in the murder of Christopher Wallace. During closing arguments, the defense read a racial slur aloud from the defendant's memoir. We have described that this happened without repeating the word. On the Georgia case, Caitlin Goble has pleaded not guilty and is presumed innocent, and the account of what she told investigators and others comes from prosecutors and witnesses, not from any finding by a jury. Reporting has differed on the exact charges, with some outlets listing only concealing a death and tampering with evidence, and others listing the full indictment including malice murder.

27:08 We have used the indictment. Jonathan Warren's guilty plea and life sentence are a matter of record. We described one offense he pleaded guilty to in general terms rather than naming it, out of respect for Morgan Bower's family. and we have not repeated characterizations of how either young woman was supporting herself because it has no bearing on who killed her. This episode discusses child deaths, suicide, and postpartum mental illness. If you are struggling, you can call or text 988 in the United States to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. For postpartum mental health specifically, the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline is available by call or text at 1-833-TLC-MAMA Postpartum psychosis is rare.

27:55 It is a medical emergency and it is treatable when it is caught. The overwhelming majority of people who experience postpartum mental illness never harm anyone.