July 29, 2026

'One of Her Best Days': Patrick Clancy Testifies, the Man Who Slept in the House of the Woman He Killed, 'Bring a Gun' at a Walmart

'One of Her Best Days': Patrick Clancy Testifies, the Man Who Slept in the House of the Woman He Killed, 'Bring a Gun' at a Walmart

Lindsay Clancy's murder trial opened Monday, July 27, in Plymouth Superior Court, with her ex-husband Patrick Clancy as the Commonwealth's first witness. Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the January 24, 2023 deaths of her children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — at the family's Duxbury, Massachusetts home. She does not dispute that she caused their deaths; the contested question is criminal responsibility. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington argues postpartum psychosis; Assistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham told jurors Clancy acted deliberately. Judge William Sullivan is presiding, and Patrick Clancy's testimony resumes Wednesday. Also: in Meigs County, Ohio, Samuel Hochstetler, 19, pleaded guilty July 24 to aggravated murder in the March 12, 2025 killing of 28-year-old schoolteacher Rosanna Kinsinger, and was sentenced by Judge Linda Warner to life with parole eligibility after 25 years — remaining counts were dismissed under the plea and were never proven at trial. And in Las Vegas, Raqiya Smith, 25, and Ameea Blue, 30, are charged after a July 21 fight outside a Boulder Highway Walmart; police say Smith called her husband, Travis Dewayne Ward, 35, and told him to bring a gun. Ward shot Kwame Swain, 28, inside the store and was killed by LVMPD Officer Cristobal Magana outside. All charged parties are presumed innocent.

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Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, and welcome to Daily Crime Injustice.

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I'm Garrett Fisher. It's Wednesday, July twenty ninth, twenty twenty six.

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Before anything else today a date fifty years ago. Tonight,

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on a street in the Bronx, an eighteen year old

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named Donna Lauria was shot and killed while she sat

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in a parked car with her friend. That was the

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first attack in what became the Son of Sam case,

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and it was the beginning of the worst year New

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York City ever had. We told that entire story last

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week in a five part series called Summer of Fear,

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New York nineteen seventy seven. It's sitting in this feed

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right now. If you missed it, go back and start

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at part one. Fifty years is a long time and

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Donna Lauria's name deserves to be said out loud today

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Now a warning about what's coming. Today's episode deals with

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with the deaths of three small children, with suicide and

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self harm, with sexual assault, and with domestic violence. There

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is no version of this hour that is easy listening.

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If you've got kids in the car, this is the stop.

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We'll see you tomorrow at four point fifty three. In

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the afternoon on January twenty fourth, twenty twenty three, in

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a house in Duxbury, Massachusetts, a woman texted her husband

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about dinner. She hadn't cooked anything, maybe they should get takeout.

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They went back and forth about which restaurant. They talked

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about the baby's nap, They talked about what everybody wanted

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to eat. It is the single most ordinary conversation two

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parents can have. Patrick Clancy came up from the basement

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where he'd been working. He picked up his son, Callan,

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eight months old, and rocked him on his knees for

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a minute. He kissed his daughter, Cora on the head.

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Cora was five. He looked over at Dawson, three years old,

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sitting there working his way through a bowl of chicken nutuggets.

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Then he got in the car to pick up the

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food and grab something from the pharmacy. That was the

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last time Patrick Clancy saw his children alive. On Monday morning,

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in a courtroom in Plymouth, Patrick Clancy climbed into the

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witness box and told twelve strangers about that bowl of

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chicken nuggets, about the kiss on his daughter's head, and

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about a phone call fourteen seconds long that he took

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while he was out running errands, a call in which,

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according to the Commonwealth, his wife said nothing at all

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that worried him. Fifteen feet away at the defense table,

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Lindsey Clancy wiped her eyes, then she started to sob.

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He is back on that stand today. Lindsay Clancy is

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on trial in Plymouth Superior Court on three counts of

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first degree murder in the deaths of Cora, Dawson and Callen.

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She admits she killed them. She is pleaded not guilty

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and argues she is not criminally responsible because she was

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suffering from postpartum psychosis. Judge William Sullivan is presiding. In

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Mike's County, Ohio spelled Meigs and pronounced megs. Nineteen year

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old Samuel Holchstetler has pleaded guilty to aggravated murder in

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the death of twenty eight year old Rosanna Kinsinger and

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was sentenced Friday to life in prison with parole eligibility

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after twenty five years. And in Las Vegas, two women

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are facing felony charges after a fight outside of Walmart

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on Boulder Highway ended with one man shot in the

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stomach and another man. One of the women's husbands shot

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and killed by a police officer in the parking lot.

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Segment one, the Commonwealth versus Lindsay Clancy. We've been on

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this case for a year and a half, the civil suits,

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the fight over what the jury would be allowed to see,

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the pre trial rulings two weeks ago, and now finally

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the thing itself. On Monday morning, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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stood up and told twelve people what it thinks happened

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inside that house. Before I go one word further a

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correction from this show. In our June and July coverage,

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we described Callan Clancy as seven months old. Court, TV, CNN, NBC,

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and the Commonwealth's own exhibits all put him at eight months.

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Eight months is the number that one is on us,

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and I'd rather fix it out loud than quietly. Assistant

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District Attorney Shenan Buckingham delivered the opening for the Commonwealth,

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and the theory she laid out is not complicated. It's brutal,

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but it isn't complicated. She told the jury that Lindsey

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Clancy sent her husband out of the house on purpose,

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take out from a restaurant, then medicine from the pharmacy,

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enough time and that while he was gone, she took

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all three children down into the basement and used exercise

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bands to kill each one of them. Then, Buckingham said,

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she went to the kitchen, took a knife, and went

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upstairs to the master bedroom, where she noticed she'd missed

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a call from Patrick, so she called him back fourteen seconds.

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The prosecutor's framing of that call was the coldest line

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the morning. Nothing in it worried him. He went on

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with his task, and she went on with hers. After

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she hung up, prosecutors say she cut her own arms

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and her own neck and went out a second story window.

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Buckingham's portrait of the defendant is a woman who was

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not sick, but controlling her words, meticulous, controlling, manipulative, a

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woman who no longer liked the life she had built,

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who found it harder and harder to manage, and who

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saw an exit and took it. She called it a

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selfish choice. Kevin Reddington, for the defense, walked up to

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that jury box and did something you don't often see.

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He said, he'd normally start by thanking them for their service.

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In this case, he said, God bless you, you are

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going to have to listen to some of the most

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horrific things, and look at some of the most horrific things.

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Then he told them what the defense case actually is.

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That she loved those children right up to the moment

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they died, that she has been living inside a nightmare

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that has not end and will not end. And he

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described what she did to herself going out that window

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in clinical detail because he needs the jury to understand it.

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Shattered thoracic spine, shattered cervical spine at the first disc

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every rib broken. She is paralyzed. She will be paralyzed

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for the rest of her life. She is not he

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told them, going to get up and walk out of

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this courtroom now. I want to be careful here because

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this is the exact place where a case like this

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gets sloppy. Reddington is not arguing that his client didn't

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do it. Nobody in that room is arguing that the

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question in front of this jury is narrower and harder

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whether Lindsey Clancy, at the moment she did it, was

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capable of understanding what she was doing and conforming her

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conduct to the law. That is a legal standard, not

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a sympathy contest. Explaining the defense theory is not the

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same as buying it and I want you deciding for

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yourself as the evidence comes in, because the Commonwealth's first

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witness gave both sides something. Patrick Clancy took the stand

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around eleven forty five Monday morning. He and Lindsay are divorced.

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Now he is remarried and moved to New York, and

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he walked the jury through the arc of a life.

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They met in twenty thirteen, moved in together in twenty fifteen,

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had three children. He described how she went from working

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more than forty hours a week as a labor and

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delivery nurse to two ships a week after their first

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child was born, how every time she was supposed to

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go back, something in her tightened, How it got worse

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with each birth. By the time callan arrived. He said,

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you could see it on her, the stress, the anxiety,

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and then he said a sentence that is going to

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sit with that jury for the rest of this trial.

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We didn't have a diagnosis, We didn't know what was wrong.

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He testified that in September of twenty twenty two, at

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a wedding in New Hampshire, she told him during a

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walk that she was going to start taking zolof for

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the anxiety, and that he learned later she already had

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the prescription in hand when she told him. He testified

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that in December of twenty twenty two, she confided that

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she was having intrusive thoughts, thoughts about harming the children

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or about something bad happening to them. He was not

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concerned for their safety at the time, he said, because

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she showed no intention of acting on any of it.

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She saw doctors, multiple doctors, She was prescribed a list

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of medications. She was hospitalized. She was discharged from one

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hospital on January fifth, nineteen days before she killed her children.

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And here is the line the commonwealth needs and the

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defense has to live with. Patrick Clancy told the jury.

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I was hopeful. She seemed much better. He said, she

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seemed happy. He said she was having one of her

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best days. And it was exactly that her looking better

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that made him comfortable leaving those three kids alone with

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their mother while he went to pick up dinner. Look,

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I'm going to be honest with you. I don't know

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what that testimony proves, and neither does anyone else. Yet

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execution will tell you. It proves she was lucid and calculating.

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The defense will tell you that a woman deep in

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postpartum psychosis presenting as calm on the outside is not

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a contradiction. It's the whole terrifying point, and that this

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is exactly why people miss it. Two completely different readings

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of the same man's memory of the same afternoon, and

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that jury is going to hear both of them from

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expert witnesses for weeks. What I do know is that

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across twenty twenty two there were a lot of appointments,

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a lot of prescriptions, an impatient stay, a discharge, and

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a husband asking out loud, what is wrong with my

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wife and not getting an answer. There's a playbook for this,

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and the playbook keeps failing at the same spot. Court

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adjourned at three o'clock Monday. Tuesday was a day off.

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Patrick Clancy is back in that box today and he

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is going to be asked to describe what he found

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when he came home. One more thing, and I think

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it matters. Last Friday, Judge Sullivan granted Patrick Clancy's motion

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restricting media access to his nine one one call and

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to photographs of his dead children. The court ordered that

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they not be recorded, displayed, reproduced, or distributed. Good that

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man is about to be cross examined about the worst

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afternoon of his life on a live stream. The least

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the system can do is refuse to turn his children

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into content court Clancy was five years old, Dawson was three,

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Callen was eight months old. There is a photograph and

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evidence of the three of them sitting together in a

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wagon when we come back. An Amish community in southern Ohio,

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a woman who moved there to be a school teacher,

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and a nineteen year old who volunteered to be the

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one to tell her father she was dead. Rosanna Kinsinger

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was twenty eight years old. She grew up in Missouri,

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and she moved to Meigs County, Ohio, in the southeastern

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corner of the state along the River to teach school.

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That was the reason she went to teach children in

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an Amish community that needed a teacher. Her father, Moses Kinsinger,

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described her afterward as outgoing and friendly, somebody who liked

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being around people. On March twelfth of twenty twenty five,

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she spent the day building a greenhouse with a group

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of people from her community. One of them was a

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nineteen year old named Samuel Holchstetler, who lived with a

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family across the road from her. People who were there

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that day would later describe watching him show off around Rosanna,

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trying to flirt with her. The prosecutor in this case,

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Mags County Prosecutor James Stanley, was blunt about what that

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was and what it wasn't. His words in open court,

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the defendant and Rosanna were not courting. They were not dating.

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They were not together, They were not seeing each other.

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They were not in a casual sexual relationship, he said.

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Friends had testified that Rosanna didn't particularly like him. The

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next day, she didn't show up for work. She didn't

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show up for anything. Friends and neighbors went to check

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on her. The back door of her trailer had been

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left open and a goat had wandered inside. They went

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further in and they found her. The elders of the

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community stood outside and worked out what to do. They

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settled on calling nine one one, and they sent a

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group two miles up the road to tell her parents.

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Samuel Hawkstettler went with them, and when they got there,

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according to Stanley, Hoachstettler took it upon himself to be

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the one who told Rosanna's father that his daughter was dead.

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He killed her, and then he stood in her parents'

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doorway and told them. It didn't stop there. Stanley told

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the court that Hawkstettler then volunteered to go out to

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the Kinsinger farm and help with the chores, helped get

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the barn ready for the funeral. And he did. He helped.

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He was a welcome guest in that house, not just

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during the day. He slept there Friday night, he slept

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there Saturday night, he slept there Sunday night. Rosanna's parents

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and her brothers and sisters had no idea that the

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person sitting with them while they grieved was the person

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who killed her. Stanley called that, aside from the rape

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and the murder themselves, perhaps the cruelest thing the defendant did.

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I'm not going to argue with him. Investigators determined Rosanna

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had been the victim of a violent sexual assault and

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that she died during it. The state's position is that

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Hawkstetler pressed the blankets over her face with enough force

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to dislodge her lower dentures and pressed down on her

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torso until she could not breathe. That is what asphyxiation

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means when you say it plainly. Hulkstettler was arrested in

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May of twenty twenty five and indicted on aggravated murder,

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two counts of murder, rape, two counts of kidnapping, and

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strangulation with sexual motivation and sexually violent predator specifications attached. Well,

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here's where the case got complicated. Hoax Stettler confessed he

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was brought into the sheriff's office for a DNA collection,

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and he told them what he did, and a judge

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threw that confession out, finding that hoax Stettler, who speaks

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Pennsylvania Dutch, did not actually understand the rights he was waving.

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Court proceedings in this case ran with an interpreter. I

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know what some of you are thinking, but that ruling

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is the system working exactly the way it's supposed to.

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A waiver you don't understand, isn't a waiver If you

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only want that rule to apply to people you like.

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It isn't a rule, it's a preference. What it did

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do was change the math. Stanley told the court on

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Friday that he still believed the state's case was strong,

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but he admitted the suppression was part of why he

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put a plea on the table. His phrase, the state

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is hedging its bets as far as what could possibly

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happen at trial, So, four days before jury's selection was

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set to begin, Samuel Hoakstetler withdrew his not guilty plea

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and pleaded guilty to aggravated murder. The remaining counts and

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specifications were dismissed as part of the agreement. His attorney

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told the court that the smothering was quote a result

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of his lack of experience, that it was never his

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intention that his client feels a great amount of remorse.

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I'll let you sit with that one for a second.

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That's the defense in experience. Huastetler himself addressed the court briefly.

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He said he was sorry for everything he did. He

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said he wished he could go back to those days

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and make a different life. He said he didn't know

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how to fully express how sorry he was. Judge Linda

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Warner sentenced him to life in prison. He will be

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eligible for parole after twenty five years. He gets credit

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for time served, and if he is ever released, he

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will register as a Tier three sex offender and as

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a violent offender twenty five years. He's nineteen. Run that

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math and tell me how you feel about it Meeks

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County Sheriff Scott Fitch said afterward that no court outcome

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can erase what the family lost, and that he hoped

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the plea gave them a measure of justice. That's the

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standard thing law enforcement says, and this time I think

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he meant it, because what else is there to say.

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Rosanna Kinsinger moved across the country to teach kids how

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to read, and she was killed by a neighbor, who

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then ate at her parents' table for three days after

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the break. A fight in a Walmart parking lot at

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six in the morning, a phone call, and two people

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on the ground before the store had been open an

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hour Boulder Highway East, Las Vegas, Tuesday, July twenty first,

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just after six in the morning. The Walmart had been

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opened for something like an hour. Out front near a

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palm tree, a twenty eight year old man named Kwame

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Swain and I'll spell that for you. Kwam was in

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a loud argument with his girlfriend. Two women were walking

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into the store, twenty five year old Riki Award, who

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is listed in the arrest report under her maiden name Smith,

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and thirty year old of me A Blue. According to

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the arrest report, as the two women walked past, Swain

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said something to them. Words were exchanged. Blue swung at him,

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He ducked and swung back, and then all three of

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them were fighting in front of a walmart at six

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in the morning. Swain's girlfriend tried to break it up

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and got punched for it. Blue picked up a rock

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out of a planter, police say, a softball sized rock,

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and threw it and hit him. Store security waded in

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and separated everybody. Blue picked up more rocks and followed

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him into the store, and security stopped her and made

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her drop them. That's where this should have ended. A

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stupid fight, trespass warnings, maybe a misdemeanor battery charge. Everybody

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goes home embarrassed. But at some point during that fight,

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Raki A Ward had stepped away and gotten on her phone.

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She was calling her husband, thirty five year old Travis Ward.

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Two witnesses told police they heard what she said to him,

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bring a gun. Travis Ward drove to the walmart and

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parked right in front of the entrance doors. His wife

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met him. According to the report, she told him where

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to find the man she'd been fighting with. He's inside

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no shirt. Surveillance video that Las Vegas police showed publicly

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on Friday, shows Travis Ward walking past shoppers, pulling a

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handgun out of his waistband and firing. The round went

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through Quame Swain's abdomen and out his back. Police state

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Ward tried to fire again and the gun malfunctioned. A

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twenty nine year old officer named Krystobaumcgana was pulling up outside.

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He heard what he believed was a gun shot from

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inside the store, and a second later saw a man

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come out the doors holding a handgun. Mcgona fired. Travis

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Ward went down in the parking lot and was pronounced

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dead there. Mcgona has been with the department since twenty

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twenty four and is on routine paid administrative leave while

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the shooting is reviewed. That review is not finished, and

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I'm not going to pretend to know its outcome. Officers

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went inside and found Kuame Swain with a gunshot wound

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to the abdomen. He was taken out in critical condition.

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As of Friday, police said he had been upgraded to stable.

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Raki Award and Emia Blue were arrested the next day.

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Both are charged with battery with a deadly weapon, conspiracy

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to commit battery and disregard for the safety of persons

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or property resulting in death or substantial bodily harm. Ward

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faces additional counts. Both have the presumption of innocence and

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neither has been convicted of anything. At their first appearance

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last Thursday, a defense attorney made the argument, you'd expect

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miss Smith and Miss Blue were walking into the walmart,

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mister Swain said something to them, meaning he started it.

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The prosecutor's answer was shorter. This entire incident stems from

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a physical fight that was started by this defendant, the

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co defendant, and then enlisting someone to come and show

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up with a firearm. The judge noted both women had

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prior contact with the courts. Ward was ordered held without bail.

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Blue was ordered held on twenty five thousand dollars bail

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with electronic monitoring. They were both due back in court

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yesterday after we recorded this. There's one more piece of

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this and I'm going to handle it carefully, quame Swain.

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The man who got shot is himself now facing three

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counts of domestic battery and a count of attempted coercion

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charges connected to his girlfriend and to a complaint she

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made to police. The day before, officers were actually looking

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for him when they found him bleeding on a Walmart floor.

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He was booked in absentia from his hospital bed. He

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has not been convicted of any of it, and he

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is presumed innocent, same as everybody else in this story.

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And I want to be extremely clear about why I

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told you that. Not because it explains anything, not because

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it makes what happened to him a wash. A man

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being under investigation does not make him a legitimate target

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for a stranger's husband to execute in the health and

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beauty aisle. Those two facts sit next to each other,

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and neither one cancels the other. Because here's what I

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keep coming back to. Everything up to the phone call

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was recoverable, every single thing, the insult, the punches, the rock,

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all of it ugly and dumb and completely survivable. And

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then somebody made a phone call and asked another human

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being to bring a gun to a Walmart, and he did,

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and now he's dead in a parking lot, and another

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man has a hole through his abdomen, and a Las

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Vegas police officer has to live with what he did

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at six in the morning on a Tuesday. That's not

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a mistake. That's a choice, a whole chain of them.

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One of the shoppers in that store, a man named

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Christopher Goodlow, told a local station he'd come in for

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tilanhol before his morning walk and walked into something that

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looked like a war zone. Thirty two years in that city,

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he said, and he'd never seen anything like it. Cora

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Clancy was five years old, Dawson Clancy was three, Callan

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Clancy was eight months old. Their father is in a

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witness box in Plymouth this morning, and he is going

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to be asked to say out loud what he walked

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into when he came home with the takeout. Whatever that

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jury decides about criminal responsibility, and it is a genuinely

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hard question. Those three names are the reason anybody is

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in that courtroom. Rosanna Kinsinger was twenty eight. She moved

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from Missouri to Ohio to teach school. Her killer will

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be eligible for parole in twenty five years, and her

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father will be an old man when that hearing happens.

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And Travis Ward is dead on a Walmart parking lot

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in Las Vegas because his wife called him and asked

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him to bring a gun to a fistfight. If today's

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episode did something for you, do us a favor and

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send it to one person. That's it, one person who'd

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want to hear it. Word of mouth is the entire

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reason this show exists. And if you're listening on Spotify,

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drop a comment and tell me this. Patrick Clancy said

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his wife seemed happy that afternoon. She was having one

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of her best days. Does that sound to you like

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a woman who was well or like a woman nobody

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could see. That's the whole trial, and I want to

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know where you land before that jury does same question.

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If you're over on YouTube, I'm Garrett Fisher. This has

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been Daily Crime and Justice from Calaroga Shark Media. Will

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be back tomorrow. Do better. A few notes for the

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record on Lindsay Clancy. Miss Clancy has pleaded not guilty

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to three counts of first degree murder and is presumed innocent.

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She does not dispute that she caused her children's deaths.

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The contested question is criminal responsibility. Everything attributed to prosecutors,

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to the defense, or to any witness is opening argument

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or testimony, not proven fact. Trial testimony is ongoing as

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of this recording and may have moved since we recorded.

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We are correcting our own prior reporting, we previously described

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Callan Clancy as seven months old. Court TV, CNN, NBC

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and the Commonwealth's presentation all places him at eight months,

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and eight months is the figure we now use on

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Samuel Hochstettler. Mister hoax Stetler pleaded guilty to aggravated murder

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on July twenty fourth and was sentenced the same day

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to life with parole eligibility after twenty five years. The

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remaining counts and specifications were dismissed as part of the

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plea agreement, which means they were never proven at trial.

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The account of the assault comes from the prosecutor's statement

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in open court. Mister Hawkstetler's confession was suppressed before trial

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after a judge found he did not understand the rights

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he waived. Nothing in that suppressed statement was used in

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this segment. On the Las Vegas case, Rakeiah Ward, who

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appears in the arrest report and in some coverage under

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her maiden name Rakea Halema Smith, and Emia Blue, have

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been charged and are presumed innocent. We note a sourcing conflict.

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The LNG crime account we reviewed describes ms Ward as

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having said something to the couple first. The Las Vegas

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Metropolitan Police arrest report, as reported by the Las Vegas

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Review Journal, KLAS KTNV and KSNV, states that mister Swain

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spoke to the two women first. We use the arrest

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report version and are flagging the conflict rather than resolving it.

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Kwame Swain has been charged with domestic battery offenses arising

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from a separate complaint, and is likewise presumed innocent. Those

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charges are unproven and are not offered as justification for

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anything that happened to him. The officer involved shooting of

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Travis Ward remains under departmental review and no findings have

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been issued. Blue spelling appears as both Emiya and Amina

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across outlets. We use a MIA which matches jail and

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court records. Sourcing for Today Court TV, CNN, The Boston Globe,

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CBS Boston, Boston dot Com, NBC Boston, The Patriot Ledger,

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The Las Vegas Review Journal, KLAS KTNV, KSNV, News three,

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Las Vegas, Fox five, Vegas, WSAZ, wowk WCCHS, the Miggs

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County Sheriff's Office, the Miggs County Prosecutor's Office, and Law

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and Crime. We name victims because they deserve to be named.

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We don't convict ahead of verdicts, and we don't pretend

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verdicts are always justice. Today's episode dealt with the deaths

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of children, with suicide and self harm, with sexual assault,

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and with domestic violence. If any of that is sitting

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heavy on you, help exists in the United States and Canada.

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You can call or text nine eight eight. The National

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Domestic Violence Hotline is one eight hundred seven nine nine

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