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TikTok Video Sparks Witness Dispute in Lindsay Clancy Murder Trial | Crime Alert 08.13.26 · 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 high profile dispute rooted in a viral
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  Speaker 1: social media video has erupted. At the outset of Lindsay
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  Speaker 1: Clancy's murder trial in Massachusetts, defense attorneys are moving to
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  Speaker 1: add a former mental hospital staff member to their witness list,
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  Speaker 1: a clinical social worker who publicly accused trial witnesses of
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  Speaker 1: spreading lies and misrepresentations about the psychiatric facility where Clancy
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  Speaker 1: was treated just weeks before strangling her three young children.
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  Speaker 1: Defense attorney Kevin Reddington asked Judge William Sullivan to add
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  Speaker 1: Emily Thorndikey, arguing her years of experience were but a
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  Speaker 1: prosecution narrative, describing McLean Hospital as a five star institution
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  Speaker 1: overflowing with treatment options that Clancy simply refused. Reddington tracked
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  Speaker 1: down thornd key after she took to TikTok to expose
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  Speaker 1: actual weekend staffing levels at the facility.
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  Speaker 2: In general, there are around twenty three patients on the
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  Speaker 2: unit time and because of that, there are usually around
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  Speaker 2: four to five physicians in charge. We call them four
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  Speaker 2: to five psychiatrists who there is one doctor who comes
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  Speaker 2: on the weekend in holidays, and he or she sees
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  Speaker 2: every single patient on the unit. Okay, And if you
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  Speaker 2: think about it, there's a reason that the doctors who
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  Speaker 2: are there during the week are only assigned four to
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  Speaker 2: five patients because you cannot spend a long amount of
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  Speaker 2: time as a doctor with twenty three different patients. So
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  Speaker 2: the job of the weekend doctor, as we call them,
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  Speaker 2: the holiday doctor, is literally to just go quickly check
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  Speaker 2: in with every patient. It is not a lengthy meeting
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  Speaker 2: 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: Reddington highlighted Thorn de Key's videos demanding accountability from the facility,
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  Speaker 1: pointing to her claim that the hospital failed to perform
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  Speaker 1: proper postpart of mental health assessments prior to discharging patients.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be straight up, McLain needs to be held accountable.
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  Speaker 2: They did clearly not do their proper assessment when they
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  Speaker 2: granted her discharge. I'm going to be straight up, okay,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm going to say that as somebody who's worked
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  Speaker 2: on that unit and had to approve discharge. You are
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  Speaker 2: a well trained mental health professional. You know when you
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  Speaker 2: are assessing a woman with postpartum mental health, you need
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  Speaker 2: to be doing a damn good job of making sure
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  Speaker 2: that she's not going to go hurt her kids because
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  Speaker 2: of where she's at in her mental health. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't think McLean did a proper assessment.
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  Speaker 1: Prosecutors quickly fired back, emphasizing that thorn de Key left
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  Speaker 1: McLean roughly a year before Clancy arrived, had zero firsthand
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  Speaker 1: knowledge of her care, and was merely following trial coverage online.
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  Speaker 1: Judge Sullivan expressed hesitation regarding allowing a full review of
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  Speaker 1: the hospital's reputation, though he took the motion under advisement
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  Speaker 1: regarding standard holiday weekend staffing.
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  Speaker 3: That witness would be allowed to give her in a
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  Speaker 3: sense review of McLean's if it's five star and she
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  Speaker 3: may say it's two star. You know this is not
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  Speaker 3: Trip Advisor.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't allow that, and knowing in but the question
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  Speaker 4: seems to be for me a closer call about what
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  Speaker 4: the standard staffing in programs may be available on a
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  Speaker 4: holiday weekend. Because the Carmelwells witness said, I don't know that.
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  Speaker 1: That court footage from our friends at East Idaho News. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: jurors reviewed desperate text messages Clancy sent to her psychiatric
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  Speaker 1: nurse practitioner in late twenty twenty two. Clancy detailed worsening depression, insomnia,
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  Speaker 1: and intrusive thoughts, at one point writing that she felt hopeless.
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  Speaker 1: Nurse practitioner Rebecca Jelatta testified Tuesday she interpreted those frantic
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  Speaker 1: communications as symptoms of depression rather than suicidal ideation, opting
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  Speaker 1: not to direct Clancy to an emergency room. More crime
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  Speaker 1: and justice news after this In Philadelphia, nineteen year old
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  Speaker 1: suspect Kadipi Fleming, already wanted in connection with the fatal
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  Speaker 1: robbery of Penn State student Billy Schmidt, is now a
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  Speaker 1: person of interest in the attempted carjacking of an off
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  Speaker 1: duty police officer. Twenty two year old Schmidt was shot
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  Speaker 1: dead on June sixth after returning from a bar where
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  Speaker 1: he watched the NBA Finals. Surveillance footage captured Schmidt confronting
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  Speaker 1: a man to demand his stolen phone back before another
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  Speaker 1: individual turned and shot him in the chest. His devastated
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  Speaker 1: father recounted the incident to Fox fifty nine.
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  Speaker 5: I'm still just shocked that this happened. In he was
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  Speaker 5: chasing a kid who took the phone, and another kid
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  Speaker 5: came around and shot him.
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  Speaker 1: Fleming's sixteen year old brother, azuber Auten Fleming was captured
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  Speaker 1: by US marshalls in Colorado and faces murder charges alongside
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  Speaker 1: sixteen year old Kaisim Smith, but Kadipi Fleming remains on
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  Speaker 1: the run. On August tenth, suspects allegedly broke into an
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  Speaker 1: off duty officer's Dodge charger, pushed it around the block
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  Speaker 1: in exchange gunfire with the officer before escaping in another
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  Speaker 1: stolen car. Speaking with WPVII Supervisory Deputy US Marshal Robert
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  Speaker 1: Clark issued a direct warning to the fleeing suspect.
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  Speaker 5: Anyone who shoots at police on or off duty, we
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  Speaker 5: consider an immediate and deadly threat. Message to him and
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  Speaker 5: his family would be the same that I gave to
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  Speaker 5: his brother almost two months ago. Surrender now or be
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  Speaker 5: caught later.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities emphasized that Fleming already boasts a significant criminal history
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  Speaker 1: involving firearm possession, resisting arrest, and stolen vehicles, warning that
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  Speaker 1: his capture is inevitable. Anyone with information is urged to
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  Speaker 1: contact Philadelphia Police for more crime and justice news. Be
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  Speaker 1: twov With this crime alert, I'm Sidney Silvoni.