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Judge Blocks TikToker from Testifying in Lindsay Clancy Murder Trial | Crime Alert 08.20.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime al Art hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Sidney Silvannie. A major legal ruling has come down in
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  Speaker 1: the high profile murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts
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  Speaker 1: mother accused of strangling her three young children to death
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  Speaker 1: inside their Duxbury home in January twenty twenty three. A
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  Speaker 1: former psychiatric hospital employee who published a viral TikTok video
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  Speaker 1: criticizing prosecutors and detailing conditions at the facility where Clancy
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  Speaker 1: was briefly committed, will not be allowed to take the
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  Speaker 1: stand as a defense witness. During a VA Dyer hearing
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday, August nineteenth, Judge William Sullivan ruled that Emily Thorndikey,
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  Speaker 1: a licensed independent clinical social worker, cannot testify before the jury.
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  Speaker 1: Defense attorney Kevin Reddington sought to add Thorndikey to the
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  Speaker 1: defense witness list after her nearly ten minute video posted
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  Speaker 1: under the handle at Emily t Therapy racked up over
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  Speaker 1: six hundred thousand likes. Thornd key previously worked at McLean
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  Speaker 1: Hospital in n in Belmont, Massachusetts, where Clancy was admitted
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  Speaker 1: for several days in December twenty twenty two following a
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  Speaker 1: severe mental health crisis. Although thornd Key stopped working at
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  Speaker 1: the facility the year prior, Reddington hired a private investigator
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  Speaker 1: to track her down after she claimed online that prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: had misrepresented the level of patient care and staffing levels
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  Speaker 1: at McLean Hospital during the holidays. In the viral video
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  Speaker 1: clip posted to TikTok, thornd Key challenged the prosecution's claims
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  Speaker 1: regarding doctor access and holiday staffings.
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  Speaker 2: In general, there are around twenty three patients on the
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  Speaker 2: unit at a time, and because of that, there are
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  Speaker 2: usually around four to five physicians in charge. We call
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  Speaker 2: them four to five psychiatrists who there is one doctor
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  Speaker 2: who comes on the weekend in holidays and here or
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  Speaker 2: she sees every single patient on the unit. Okay, And
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  Speaker 2: if you think about it, there's a reason that the
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  Speaker 2: doctors who are there during the week are only assigned
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  Speaker 2: four to five patients because you cannot spend a long
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  Speaker 2: amount of time as a doctor with twenty three different patients.
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  Speaker 2: So the job of the weekend doctor, as we call
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  Speaker 2: them the holiday doctor, is literally to just go quickly
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  Speaker 2: check in with every patient. It is not a lengthy
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  Speaker 2: meeting by any means. So this idea of the prosecution, saying, well,
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  Speaker 2: she actually did see a doctor, so that was kind
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  Speaker 2: of a lie. She saw a doctor, she didn't see
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  Speaker 2: her doctor.
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  Speaker 1: Despite thorn to Key's detailed assertions on social media, prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: strongly objected to her testimony, emphasizing that she had been
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  Speaker 1: actively watching trial streams and was no longer employed at
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  Speaker 1: McLean Hospital when Clancy was admitted. Defense attorney Reddington insisted
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  Speaker 1: during the hearing that he was not trying to disparage McLean,
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  Speaker 1: declaring that the facility had done a good job of
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  Speaker 1: that themselves. Ultimately, Judge Sullivan sided with the prosecution, ruling
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  Speaker 1: that thorn de Key's testimony offered limited value because official
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  Speaker 1: hospital records already document staffing levels and can be introduced
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  Speaker 1: into evidence directly. Clancy does not deny killing her three
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  Speaker 1: children with exercise bands, but her defense team contends she
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  Speaker 1: is not criminally responsible due to severe postpartum psychosis and
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  Speaker 1: over medication. More crime and justice news after this. In California,
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  Speaker 1: a former chiropractor has been ordered to serve time behind
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  Speaker 1: bars after abusing his professional authority to assault multiple female patients.
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  Speaker 1: Ventura County District Attorney Eric Nasarenko announced on August fourteenth,
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  Speaker 1: that forty six year old Fernando Juarez Gomez Junior was
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  Speaker 1: sentenced to six years in state prison in Ventura County
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  Speaker 1: Superior Court. Gomez, who operated the now closed Limitless Functional
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  Speaker 1: Therapy Clinic in Ventura, was convicted by a jury on
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  Speaker 1: June twenty fourth of five felony counts of sexual battery
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  Speaker 1: involving four female victims, while also pleading guilty to a
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  Speaker 1: battery charge involving a fifth victim. According to details provided
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  Speaker 1: by the Ventura County District Attorney's office, police detectives launched
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  Speaker 1: an investigation into Gomez in early twenty twenty four after
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  Speaker 1: two female paces reported that he touched them inappropriately in
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  Speaker 1: areas unrelated to legitimate medical treatment. Investigators arrested Gomez at
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  Speaker 1: his clinic on March twenty first, twenty twenty four, prompting
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  Speaker 1: additional victims to come forward to the Ventura Police Department.
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  Speaker 1: Senior Deputy District Attorney Twila Atmore stated that Gomez convinced
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  Speaker 1: these young women his methods would relieve their pain, but
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  Speaker 1: instead touched the most intimate parts of their bodies for
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  Speaker 1: his own sexual gratification. The court affirmed aggravating factors showing
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  Speaker 1: Gomez exploited his position of trust. Turning to Minnesota, a
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  Speaker 1: tragedy has left the city of Hopkins in mourning following
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  Speaker 1: a double murder suicide inside a residential day care center.
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  Speaker 1: The Hopkins Police Department reports that forty one year old
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  Speaker 1: daycare owner Kristin Brown and her seven year old daughter,
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  Speaker 1: Evie Brown, were found dead inside the Brown Bear day
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  Speaker 1: care facility. Investigators believe Kristen's husband and Evie's father, forty
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  Speaker 1: one year old Nathan Brown, fatally stabbed both victims with
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  Speaker 1: a screwdriver before dying from a self inflict did gunshot wound.
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  Speaker 1: According to court documents and search warrants, a parent arriving
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  Speaker 1: to drop off a child heard screams coming from inside
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  Speaker 1: the home. Upon entering through the back door, the parent
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  Speaker 1: witnessed Nathan attacking Kristin and Evie. The heroic parent immediately
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  Speaker 1: fled with three children in called nine one one. Arriving
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  Speaker 1: officers safely evacuated six additional children from the building, all
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  Speaker 1: of whom were physically unharmed. Investigators revealed that Kristin had
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  Speaker 1: issued a notice just two weeks earlier announcing the day
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  Speaker 1: care's closure due to relationship struggles with Nathan. Authorities in Burnsville, Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: have linked the tragedy to a secondary homicide eighteen miles away,
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  Speaker 1: where Nathan's seventy eight year old mother, Alice Brown, was
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  Speaker 1: also found stabbed to death in her home. Family members
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  Speaker 1: expressed complete devastation in a public statement released by police,
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  Speaker 1: while the local community gathered for a candlelight vigil to
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  Speaker 1: honor the victims. For more crime and justice news, be
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  Speaker 1: two With this crime alert, I'm Sidney Silvanni