True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews

One day. That's how long it took for the Bridegan case to get more complicated, not less. 
Mario Fernandez was convicted of first-degree murder and solicitation in the killing of Jared Bridegan, shot in a staged carjacking outside his Jacksonville Beach home in 2021. Jurors took under four hours to convict; Fernandez faces life without parole. Then, a day later, prosecutors filed two entirely new felony charges against him involving children — cases with no connection to Bridegan, one tied to a girl who was around eight when the alleged conduct began. 
Shanna Gardner's trial, set to begin days later, got pushed to May 2027. Judge London Kite granted the continuance so her defense can investigate whether the new charges point to a motive of Fernandez's own — a theory made more interesting by the fact that Fernandez reportedly told police the twins were "better off" with Bridegan "out of the picture" long before any of this surfaced. 
The delay changes nothing about what's already sitting in evidence against Gardner: her own texts. A friend messaged a contact about finding Gardner "a guy" who "performs permanent disappearing acts on certain people." A detective testified the plot dates back to 2015. Gardner still faces murder, conspiracy, solicitation, and a fourth charge connected to her twins. 
Her attorney, Jose Baez, has a Casey Anthony acquittal on his record and is already accusing prosecutors of mischaracterizing evidence. The jury pool has doubled to 500 people to manage publicity from Fernandez's conviction. Two defendants, one case, and the story is still moving. 
LINKS 
Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 
Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 
Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ 
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/  Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/  Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod  X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod 
DISCLAIMER 
This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. 
HASHTAGS 
#JaredBridegan #ShannaGardner #MarioFernandez #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #JoseBaez #BrideganCase #JacksonvilleBeach #MurderForHire #HenryTenon

Whatever this jury decides, Lindsay Clancy is not walking out of that courthouse a free woman — and True Crime Today brought in defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis to explain exactly where she goes instead. 
Verdict one: not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility. That doesn't mean release in Massachusetts. It means up to forty days of court-ordered observation, followed by a civil commitment petition that carries no statutory expiration. Faddis draws the comparison to Andrea Yates, found not guilty by reason of insanity in Texas in 2006 for drowning her five children — she's still committed two decades later and has never accepted the release hearing offered to her every year. 
Verdict two: first-degree murder, which in Massachusetts comes with an automatic sentence of life without parole and an automatic appeal to the state's highest court. Faddis walks through what that appeal actually reviews, why the psychiatric evidence doesn't disappear just because the jury rejected it, and the lesser verdict — second-degree murder — that most people following this case don't realize is even on the table. 
Underneath both paths is the same physical reality: Clancy has been paralyzed from the waist down and on suicide watch since January 2023, held at Tewksbury Hospital since that May under court order. One verdict keeps her in a hospital bed. The other moves her into a prison system Faddis says isn't equipped for what her care requires. 
Faddis lays out both roads in full — what triggers each one, how long they can last, and what almost never happens after either: her going home. 
Links: 
Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ 
Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ 
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ 
Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod 
X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod 
Legal Disclaimer: 
This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. 
Hashtags: 
#LindsayClancy #EricFaddis #TrueCrimeToday #LindsayClancyTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #CriminalResponsibility #MassachusettsMurder #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #AndreaYates

The state rested its case against Duane "Keffe D" Davis this week — and closed it out with Davis's own voice from a jail phone. This recap combines Wednesday's and Thursday's proceedings in the Keffe D murder trial, covering the two days that took the case from gang hierarchy testimony to a defendant's recorded words working against him. 
It started with retired Compton gang detective Robert Ladd, a two-decade veteran of the department's gang unit who tracked the South Side Compton Crips and told jurors the specific rank Davis held — the rank that determines who's giving orders and who's taking them. The defense maintains Davis fabricated his entire account of that night for a book deal. Tupac's childhood friend Malcolm Greenidge testified after him, describing where the shots actually came from that night and what Tupac had waiting for him before it ended: a label, an album, a meeting on the calendar with Quincy Jones. Crime scene analysts then broke down what a 2023 raid on Davis's Henderson home uncovered, from his own memoir to newspaper clippings about the murder he'd apparently held onto for years. 
By the time prosecutors finished with twenty-five witnesses over eight days, they closed on jail calls: Davis annoyed that his own statements were being used against him, Davis calling his book "the real truth" in a YouTube promotion, and one call where his characterization of Tupac lands directly on motive. 
The defense picks up next, calling a detective and two police officers first. Closing arguments are scheduled for Monday — and Davis still has to decide whether he testifies in his own case. 
Links & Legal: 
Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ 
Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ 
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ 
Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod 
X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod 
This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. 
Hashtags: 
#TupacShakur #KeffeD #HiddenKillers #TupacTrial #DuaneDavis #2Pac #TrueCrime #LasVegas #DeathRowRecords #JusticeForTupac

Dr. Phillip Resnick examined two women who killed their own children in the exact same way, decades apart, and reached the same conclusion both times. He evaluated Andrea Yates before her 2001 case ended in a not guilty by reason of insanity verdict, and he told Lindsay Clancy's jury she was following a command voice too, the same finding, one expert, two mothers. 
That comparison sits at the center of a defense case that's now rested. The record shows Lindsay in session with her psychiatrist on January 23, 2023, one day before the killings, on top of two nurse practitioners, a therapist, two December calls to a suicide hotline, and a five-day inpatient stay at McLean Hospital that ended nineteen days before. The planning theory, built on errands and timing, runs into Resnick's testimony that the Commonwealth's own testing found no evidence of faking, and that Lindsay downplayed her symptoms rather than exaggerated them. The staged-jump theory runs into the fact that she's paralyzed for life and remains on suicide watch at Tewksbury Hospital. 
Prosecutors have their own expert. Dr. Avram Mack, who interviewed Lindsay in April 2026, testified she could tell right from wrong, and told the jury she said "go to God" to her children during the killings, a statement she reportedly framed very differently to a hospital chaplain a week later and to Resnick himself months after that. 
Closings are next. Lindsay's plea is not guilty on three counts of murder, on the ground that she lacked criminal responsibility, and a conviction would mean life without parole starting at age thirty-six for a woman already paralyzed and under suicide watch. Tony Brueski asks what it means when the same doctor who helped clear one mother says the same thing about another. 
Links & Legal Footer: 
Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ 
Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ 
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ 
Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod 
X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod 
This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. 
Hashtags: 
#LindsayClancy #AndreaYates #TrueCrimeToday #LindsayClancyTrial #PhillipResnick #InsanityDefense #PostpartumPsychosis #AvramMack #TrueCrime #MurderTrial

A commenter on this channel claimed Lindsay Clancy searched "Andrea Yates" before the killings to build herself an alibi. Her former coworker testified to something else entirely. Margaret Hamp worked nights with Lindsay on the labor and delivery floor at Mass General, and during Lindsay's first year there, she asked Lindsay if she knew the Yates case after a pregnant patient came in planning to hurt herself. Lindsay didn't know it. Hamp had to explain it to her. 
That gap between online claims and courtroom testimony runs through this entire trial. Every expert who examined Lindsay, on both sides, came back with bipolar disorder or major depression. Not one called her a sociopath or a psychopath, even though a text pulled from her phone on January 20 asks whether a sociopath can be treated, a line prosecutors lean on hard. Messages from the day before describe hallucinations and postpartum psychosis symptoms. Same phone, same week, two different stories. 
The prosecution's own psychiatrist, Dr. Avram Mack, testified Lindsay described a male, laughing voice telling her it was her last chance, the same account she gave a hospital chaplain in the first week after her arrest. One popular claim online insists she only ever told her own psychologist about that voice. The record says otherwise: she told the state's own witness too. 
Judge Sullivan's instructions to the jury lay out two separate prongs: whether she could appreciate that what she was doing was wrong, or whether she could control what she did. Knowing right from wrong only answers one of those questions. Tony Brueski checks the loudest theories about this case against what actually got said under oath. 
Links & Legal Footer: 
Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ 
Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ 
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ 
Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod 
X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod 
This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. 
Hashtags: 
#LindsayClancy #MargaretHamp #TrueCrimeToday #LindsayClancyTrial #AndreaYates #InsanityDefense #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #Duxbury #MurderTrial