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Calaroga Shark Media. Good morning. This is Daily Crime and
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Justice from Calaroga Media, powered by AI. I'm Garrett Fisher.
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It's Monday, September 21st, 2026. On the 3rd of September,
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on this show, I said the following about the one
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juror who would not vote to acquit Lindsay Clancy. That
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he had not spoken publicly. That his name was under seal.
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That no court had found he did anything improper. And
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that if holding out means the country learns your description
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and a famous lawyer tells you to lose sleep, then
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the next holdout folds and the unanimity requirement becomes decorative.
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Every part of that has now come apart, and faster
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than I expected. He has a name. He has been doxxed.
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He has received death threats. He has left his home
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and is living somewhere in rural New England that his
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attorney will not identify. There is more than $ 300, 000 in
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a fundraiser attached to him, and he has given his
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first account of what happened inside that jury room, which
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directly contradicts what three of his fellow jurors told television reporters.
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Also last night, Patrick Clancy sat down with 60 Minutes
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for the first interview he has given since the mistrial,
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alongside his wife. And in Ohio, a former American Idol
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contestant is on trial for murdering his wife. and prosecutors
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opened by reading the jury two text messages. Let's get
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into it. The man in the rural Northeast, his name
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is Michael Peggy Desronville. I've gone back and forth on
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whether to say it, and I've decided that at this point,
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declining to would be theater. He has given a statement
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through a spokesperson to a national network. He has retained
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counsel who is issuing press releases about him. His name
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has been on Fox News and News Nation and The Hill.
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The seal is gone and pretending otherwise helps nobody. Here
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is where he is. According to his attorney, Edward Palczyk,
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he is in a safe, undisclosed location in a rural
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part of northern New England. He left his home in Massachusetts.
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His address and his phone number were published online. He
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has received death threats. Palczyk is a defamation and media
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law attorney whose prior clients have included the President of
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the United States. He has called Desronville an American hero
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and a champion of justice, said the evil people who
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attacked his client will be held accountable to the maximum
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extent of the law and beyond, and described him as
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unbroken thanks to his devout Catholic faith. Now, that is advocacy,
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and it is laying on thick. But strip the adjectives
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away and ask yourself what the underlying facts are. A
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man was summoned for jury duty. He served for six weeks.
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He deliberated for more than 38 hours. He voted his conscience.
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And he is now living in an undisclosed location with
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a lawyer because people found out where he lived. There
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is no version of that which is acceptable. Here is
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what he says happened in that room and it is
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the first time we have heard from him. In a
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statement to News Nation, Desrenville said he did not have
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any doubts. He said that as he tried to explain
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different possible theories during deliberation, he kept getting cut off
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as if he had doubts based on the evidence. And
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he said that based on the physical evidence, the key witnesses,
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and what the prosecution presented, he thought it was enough
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proof that Lindsay Clancy knew exactly what she was doing
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and planned it. That is a flat contradiction of the foreperson,
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and it matters enormously. because the four-person's characterization is the
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entire basis on which this man was nearly thrown off
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a jury. Ronnie Carlson told NBC Boston that Deserenville admitted
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he had reasonable doubt, and that is the basis on
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which she sent Judge Sullivan a note saying he would
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not follow the law. It is also the basis on
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which Kevin Reddington stood up in open court and demanded
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he be removed, and accused him of lying under oath.
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Deserenville says that is not what happened. He says he
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never had doubts at all. And in a longer conversation
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with a YouTube host named Ray Marcel, he apparently gave
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more detail. Marcel says Desronville told him the room was
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never 11 to 1 at the start, that it began
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around 8 to 4 for acquittal, with two undecided and
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one other juror who believed Clancy was guilty, that the
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other juror stayed with him until the very end and then,
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in Marcel's words, caved. Marcel also described something that happened
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during those deliberations that I cannot stop thinking about. He
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said Desronville tied a string around a water bottle to
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demonstrate to the other jurors the force involved and told
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them to imagine the bottle as the children's necks. I
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want to be careful with all of that because it
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is a YouTube host's account of a phone call that
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was not recorded and not published. It is one man's recollection,
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relayed by a second man, about a conversation the rest
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of us cannot check. treated accordingly. But the first statement,
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the one to News Nation, is confirmed by his own attorney.
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And it means two people who sat in the same
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room have now given directly opposing accounts of the same
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conversation under their own names to reporters. Which is precisely
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why the law does not let anybody go behind a
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verdict and sort it out. We covered that rule at
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length last week. Deliberations are secret because memory is unreliable,
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because people are wounded, and because four months later, everyone
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is the hero of their own version. Now the hard part,
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and I want to be straightforward about how we are
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handling it. After Destrinville was identified, NBC Boston published material
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from his personal legal history, including an arrest in 2021
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and a restraining order matter in 2025. Neither resulted in
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a prosecution. He was not charged and he was not
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convicted in either one. We are not going to detail
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those allegations on this show. He is a private citizen
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who was ordered to appear for jury service. The allegations
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are unproven. And the reason they are in the news
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is not that anybody cared about them a month ago.
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There is, however, one genuinely legal question inside all of it.
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And it is worth explaining. Prospective jurors in Massachusetts are
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required to disclose prior arrests and charges on a juror questionnaire.
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If a juror conceals something material to get onto a panel,
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that is a real problem with a real name. Lawyers
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call it a stealth juror, and courts have removed people
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for it. In extreme cases, there can be criminal exposure
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for lying under oath. Desronville, through Marcel, says he did
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not lie. He says he checked the box he was
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supposed to check, and he was seated anyway. And here
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is the thing, if that is true, then the failure
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was not his. Voir dire exists to catch exactly this.
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Both sets of lawyers had that questionnaire. Both sides had
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the opportunity to question him. Both sides had peremptory challenges.
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If a disclosed arrest did not disqualify a juror in
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a triple murder trial, that is a decision somebody made
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in July, when both sides wanted him on that panel.
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Nobody complained about Michael Desronville until he voted the wrong way.
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And I want to say the other part of this plainly,
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because he has said it himself, and it is going
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to get argued about all week, regardless of whether I
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mention it. Through Marcel, Desronville has indicated he believes some
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of the treatment he received has to do with his
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being a black man who is politically conservative. His lawyer's
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public statements lean heavily into his faith and his politics.
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I cannot tell you what was in anybody's heart in
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that jury room, and neither can anyone else who was
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not in it. What I can tell you is what
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is observable from outside. Eleven people went home. One person's
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arrest record got pulled, published, and passed around. One person's
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address ended up online. Whatever explains that, it was not
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a neutral process, and it did not happen to the
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other eleven. Two more things and I will leave it.
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The fundraiser situation is genuinely messy. On Thursday, Peltzik posted
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publicly warning that GiveSendGo and GoFundMe pages claiming to support
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his client were unauthorized and told people not to donate.
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Then he verified the legitimacy of one of them. That
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page has now passed $ 300, 000 for security, lawyers, and lost work.
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I am not going to tell anybody what to do
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with their money. But if you are giving to a
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stranger on the internet on behalf of a man you
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have never met, in a case where the lawyer himself
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has said some of these pages are scams, do the
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small amount of homework first. And the language on that
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fundraiser page is worth hearing. The organizer wrote that Desronville
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looked at what she did, not the brand of Zoloft,
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and that Clancy could now be tried again instead of
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getting a standing ovation for her symptoms. A standing ovation
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for her symptoms. Six psychiatric experts testified in that trial.
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Every single one of them, for the defense and for
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the Commonwealth, agreed Lindsay Clancy was suffering from a serious
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mental disease. That was never in dispute. The dispute was
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whether that illness took away her ability to know right
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from wrong or to stop herself. You can believe, as
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Michael Desrenville does, that the Commonwealth proved she could stop herself.
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That is a completely defensible position, and 11 people disagreed
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with him, not the universe. But reducing a woman's documented
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psychiatric collapse to the brand of Zoloft in a fundraising
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pitch tells you what a meaningful chunk of this conversation
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is actually about. And it is not the evidence. Cora
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Clancy was five. Dawson Clancy was three. Callan Clancy was
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eight months old. The next hearing is September 29th, eight
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days from now, when Plymouth County is expected to say
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whether it is retrying this case. Someone has to say
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their names. When we come back, Patrick Clancy speaks. Last night,
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60 Minutes aired an interview with Patrick Clancy and his wife, Dr.
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Rachel Dannis. It is the first interview he has given
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since his ex-wife's murder trial ended in a mistrial. I
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want to set the table for anybody who has come
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to this late. On January 24th, 2023, Patrick Clancy went
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out to pick up takeout and a prescription for his
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five-year-old daughter. He was gone about 25 minutes. He came
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home to find his wife outside in the snow and
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his three children dead in the basement. He was the
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first witness the Commonwealth called at her trial. And on
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that stand, he spoke up for her. He has consistently
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said she was a good mother who became ill. He
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filed for divorce in February of 2024, moved to New York,
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and remarried this April. And for months, a substantial number
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of people on the internet have accused him of killing
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his own children. In a promotional clip released before the broadcast,
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correspondent Ross Douthat asked him what he says to his children.
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Patrick Clancy said, help me, all the time. His wife
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said something in that interview that I think deserves to
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be quoted properly because she has been a target too.
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She said she does not understand how the story got
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so twisted, that she was just a girl who met
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a guy running in Central Park on a really cold Saturday,
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and that she does not think there is anything wrong
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with that. She is a fertility doctor. She met a
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man out running. That is the entire scandal. Two weeks ago,
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his attorney, Howard Cooper, put out a statement describing a relentless, escalating,
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and destructive defamation campaign run by minor celebrities, influencers, and
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conspiracy theorists who he said are boosting their own profiles
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and profit by publishing what they know to be falsehoods.
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He said it has produced real-life threats to his client's reputation, livelihood,
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and life. He said enough is enough and that law
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enforcement has been notified. So now hold those two segments
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next to each other. Patrick Clancy, accused by strangers of
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murdering his own children, hires a defamation lawyer. Michael Desrenville,
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doxed and threatened for how he voted, hires a defamation lawyer.
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They are on opposite sides of this case. One of
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them believes Lindsay Clancy was sick. The other believes she
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knew exactly what she was doing. And they have both
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ended up in the same place, which is on the
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phone with an attorney because the internet came for them.
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That is not a coincidence and it is not about
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this case. That is just what happens now to anybody
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who gets close to a story this size. And notice
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the tell. Both men have now retained lawyers who specialize
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in defamation and media law. Not criminal lawyers, not appellate lawyers.
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The threat to each of them is not from the
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court system. It is from the coverage. Including, I will
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note again, from shows like this one. There is also
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a real legal development from last week, and it matters
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ahead of the 29th. Lindsay Clancy has reportedly hired one
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of the attorneys who worked on Karen Reed's defense as
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part of an effort to have her case dismissed outright
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rather than retried. That tells you the shape of what
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is coming. The defense is not preparing to run this
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trial again. They are going to argue it should never
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be run again at all, and they have brought in
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somebody who has been through the most scrutinized double trial
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in recent Massachusetts history. Reed, for what it is worth,
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was retried after her first jury hung and she was acquitted.
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District Attorney Timothy Cruz has still not said what he
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intends to do. Eight days. When we come back, 100,000
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text messages and two of them. Ashley Flynn was 37
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years old. She was a mother of two young daughters.
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On the morning of February 16th of this year, she
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was found dead in the master bedroom of her home
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in Tip City, Ohio, north of Dayton. She had been
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shot in the head. Her daughters were asleep in rooms nearby.
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Her husband called 911 and reported a break-in. He told
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the dispatcher that somebody had broken into his home and
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shot his wife, that she had two shots to her head,
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and that there was blood everywhere. Caleb Flynn is 40.
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He appeared on the 12th season of American Idol in 2013.
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He has been charged with aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault,