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Lindsay Clancy Returns to Court as Prosecutors Decide on Retrial in Strangling Case | Crime Alert 09.29.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, hourly update, breaking crime news now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sydney Silvani. Lindsay Clancy is expected to appear in
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  Speaker 2: court today for the first time since her murder trial
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  Speaker 2: ended with a deadlocked jury earlier this month. During a
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  Speaker 2: status conference in Plymouth County Superior Court, prosecutors are set
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  Speaker 2: to determine whether they plan to retry Clancy for the
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  Speaker 2: January 24, 2023 strangling deaths of her three young children,
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  Speaker 2: five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callan. If prosecutors choose
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  Speaker 2: to move forward, Judge William Sullivan may set a date
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  Speaker 2: for a retrial. Clancy's defense attorneys, Kevin Reddington and Martin Weinberg,
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  Speaker 2: filed a motion asking the court to bar a retrial
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  Speaker 2: on double jeopardy grounds. The former labor and delivery nurse,
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  Speaker 2: who was left paralyzed after jumping from a second-story window,
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  Speaker 2: argued at trial that she suffered from postpartum psychosis exacerbated
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  Speaker 2: by over-medication. Prosecutors argued she willfully and knowingly murdered her children.
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  Speaker 2: Eleven jurors were set to vote not guilty by reason
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  Speaker 2: of lack of criminal responsibility, but one holdout juror, Michael Desrenville,
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  Speaker 2: refused to agree. Juror Nick Dargy described the frustration in
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  Speaker 2: the deliberation room to ABC News, noting the holdout disengaged
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  Speaker 2: and scrolled on his phone.
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  Speaker 3: There was several times I would ask him to show
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  Speaker 3: us evidence or describe a witness testimony that helped to
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  Speaker 3: prove what he was saying. And he couldn't. There wasn't
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  Speaker 3: a single piece of evidence or witness testimony that he
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  Speaker 3: used to prove why he was thinking the way he was,
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  Speaker 3: which is why we ultimately sent in that note. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 3: there's nothing wrong with somebody having a completely opposite opinion.
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  Speaker 3: That would be a hung jury. That is our justice system.
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  Speaker 2: Despite those accusations, Desronville maintained through his attorney that he
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  Speaker 2: believed Clancy was guilty. speaking out on social media through
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  Speaker 2: Fugitive TV host Ray Marcel.
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  Speaker 4: He said he knew that she was guilty because of
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  Speaker 4: the evidence that he saw. He said because of the
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  Speaker 4: evidence that was presented in court, he said he felt
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  Speaker 4: that she was not insane at the time and knew
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  Speaker 4: what she was doing. That is what came out of
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  Speaker 4: Michael's mouth on the phone and what he told me.
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  Speaker 2: Clancy remains held at Tewksbury Hospital, a state psychiatric facility.
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  Speaker 2: More crime and justice news after this. In Ithaca, New York,
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  Speaker 2: prosecutors are reopening an investigation into an alleged 2024 gang
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  Speaker 2: rape at Cornell University after a woman filed a widely
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  Speaker 2: publicized civil lawsuit. The victim, filing under the pseudonym Jane Doe,
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  Speaker 2: alleges she was drugged and sexually assaulted by seven Chi
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  Speaker 2: Phi fraternity members in October 2024. The complaint alleges two
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  Speaker 2: members drugged her before sending a message in a Snapchat
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  Speaker 2: group called Chi Phi Actives, stating there was free s * * *.
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  Speaker 2: The alleged assaults continued until nearly 6 in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: District Attorney Matthew Van Houten announced Monday that a senior
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  Speaker 2: prosecutor will present the case to a grand jury. Van
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  Speaker 2: Houten noted that while allegations differ dramatically from Doe's initial
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  Speaker 2: 2024 police statement, Trauma can take years to process, justifying
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  Speaker 2: a review when new evidence arises. Doe's attorney, Thomas Jufra,
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  Speaker 2: claims campus police were given the Snapchat messages in 2024,
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  Speaker 2: calling them a critical piece of evidence. Finally, an Ohio
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  Speaker 2: man has been indicted in connection with the disappearance and
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  Speaker 2: murder of a teenage girl he met online. A federal
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  Speaker 2: grand jury returned a nine-count indictment against 39-year-old Tyler Nike
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  Speaker 2: Thomas of Columbus for the sexual exploitation and murder of
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  Speaker 2: 17-year-old Haley Busby. Busby, a high school student who worked
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  Speaker 2: part-time as a restaurant server, was reported missing from her
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  Speaker 2: Indiana home in January.
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  Speaker 1: U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Attorney Dominic Garasi detailed how Thomas enticed the teen through
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  Speaker 2: online gaming.
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  Speaker 5: We allege that Thomas met Haley online playing video games online.
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  Speaker 5: as early as May of 2024 when Haley was only
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  Speaker 5: 15 years of age. The indictment alleges in count one
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  Speaker 5: that Mr. Thomas attempted to coerce and entice Haley at
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  Speaker 5: that time between May of 2024 and October of 2024.
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  Speaker 2: Prosecutors allege Thomas picked Busby up in Indiana on January 6th,
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  Speaker 2: brought her to Ohio and killed her during the commission
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  Speaker 2: of federal offenses. Cell phone data tracked Thomas to an
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  Speaker 2: Airbnb in a National Forest trailhead where her dismembered remains
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  Speaker 2: were recovered. Fisher's police chief, Ed Gebhardt, noted Thomas initially
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  Speaker 2: lied to investigators about dropping her on a roadside.
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  Speaker 1: He admitted to picking Haley up at her home. He
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  Speaker 1: told us that he dropped her off on the side
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  Speaker 1: of the road in western Ohio. However, through continued investigations,
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  Speaker 1: his initial story was determined to be untrue.
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  Speaker 2: Thomas' attorney, Samuel Shemansky, eventually led police to Busby's body
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  Speaker 2: in Perry County, leading federal authorities to assume prosecution. Thomas
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  Speaker 2: now faces charges including kidnapping resulting in death, sexual exploitation,
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  Speaker 2: and obstruction of justice, with an arraignment set for next week.
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  Speaker 2: Fisher's mayor, Scott Fadness, remembered the bright teenager during a
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  Speaker 2: community address.
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  Speaker 6: She was a wonderful big sister. She had a tremendous
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  Speaker 6: amount of promise and hope. She was excited about moving
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  Speaker 6: on to university. And she was an incredible human being.
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  Speaker 6: And I know that her family is devastated currently. And
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  Speaker 6: I'm confident that our community will rally in the coming hours, days,
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  Speaker 6: and weeks to stand with that family in their grief
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  Speaker 6: and share in the burden of mending and healing from
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  Speaker 6: this tragic loss.
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  Speaker 2: For more crime and justice news, be sure to join
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  Speaker 2: us for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace on Fox One, YouTube,
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sydney Silvani.