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Henry Tenon had a deal. Plead guilty to second-degree murder, testify truthfully against Shanna Gardner and Mario Fernandez Saldana, and face a sentencing range that started at 15 years. He signed it in March 2023. He walked away from it in February 2026 and is now charged with first-degree murder.
Four years on, Tenon has never been sentenced for anything.
Jared Bridegan was a 33-year-old Microsoft employee and a father of four. He was killed on a Jacksonville Beach street on February 16, 2022, minutes after dropping his twins at his ex-wife's house. A tire had been placed in the road to make him stop. His 2-year-old was behind him in a car seat.
We walk the bank records: 52 cents in Tenon's account in January 2022, three checks totaling $10,000 from a company owned by Fernandez and Gardner in the weeks after, and a detective's testimony that the promised figure was $150,000, structured as an investment in a pallet business. Defense attorneys say the checks paid for landscaping and roof work.
Mario Fernandez Saldana's jury was picked in August. Shanna Gardner's follows days after his verdict is read aloud. Each of the three defendants has pleaded not guilty, and each is presumed innocent.
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In November 2022, a psychiatric nurse practitioner screened Lindsay Clancy with a ten-question tool built to detect postpartum mood disorders. Twenty-three out of thirty was the number. Extreme anxiety showed up on the same screen. Weeks later she was admitted to McLean Hospital, where that screening was never administered.
Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three first-degree murder counts arising from the deaths of her children at their Duxbury home. Her defense does not dispute the killings themselves. The defense argues her illness put her beyond criminal responsibility. The state's case is that she acted knowingly and swiftly.
This is the complete conversation with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, all three parts in one.
The first covers the condition. A 2017 review in BMC Psychiatry puts postpartum psychosis at roughly one or two births in a thousand, and it typically arrives within days or weeks of delivery. Eight months was Callan's age.
The second covers the clinicians. Dr. Jennifer Tufts saw Clancy across fourteen video sessions and never in person, and testified she never obtained records from other providers or had Clancy sign the releases. Dr. Alia Goodheart testified no patient with that condition had ever come to her, and that McLean obtained none of Clancy's prior records.
The third covers bipolar disorder. A nurse practitioner told Clancy and her husband about it in 2022. A psychiatrist dismissed it on the absence of mania. McLean discharged her with major depressive disorder, severe, without psychotic features.
She authored the memoir Nightbird. Both named doctors deny the allegations against them.
Clancy's five-day stay at McLean ran from January 1 to January 5, 2023. Her lawsuit says a Columbia psychiatrist evaluated her for eight hours after the deaths and diagnosed bipolar disorder with psychosis and anxious distress with postpartum onset.

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A former Stillwater High School student walked out of a Payne County courtroom on August 3, 2026 with no record he has to explain to anyone. Jesse Mack Butler turned nineteen the following day.
The math is the story. Prosecutors charged him as an adult in March 2025 with eleven felony counts and exposure to 78 years. He finished the case with 150 hours of community service, about $3,300, and not one night behind a locked door.
Oklahoma's Youthful Offender Act put him in a supervised program instead of a cell and gave the court authority that expired on his nineteenth birthday. Everyone who signed the July 2025 agreement knew that date.
Special Judge Susan Worthington granted the youthful offender status. District Attorney Laura Austin Thomas, who has since left office, said filing in adult court was deliberate because juvenile cases in Oklahoma stay confidential. That public record is the one Butler's attorney now wants sealed.
Two girls came forward. Both were sixteen. Neither ever took a witness stand, because the plea was reached before the preliminary hearing where they would have testified.
At the final hearing, defense attorney Derek Chance told the court his client was innocent and that one girl's account was false. The convictions were minutes from erasure. The new district attorney stood up from the gallery and said afterward that nothing had ever made his blood boil more.
What remains is a federal referral nobody has attached a charge to, a civil suit naming Butler, his parents, and the school district, and an insurance company asking a federal judge to let it walk away.
One mother predicted all of it in open court in December 2025.
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Massachusetts State Police case officer Joshua McKelligan took the stand today in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation. She has pleaded not guilty and is mounting an insanity defense, with attorney Kevin Reddington arguing she was in the grip of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication at the time of the killings.
McKelligan testified that he entered the Clancy home in the early morning hours of January 25 to record video of the master bedroom, footage that was shown to jurors today. The video focused on blood spatters and smears, a knife, and the second-story window Clancy allegedly jumped from after the killings. McKelligan noted a detail that's going to sit with jurors: the blood was on the floors, not the walls. He also testified to a bloody handprint found outside that window — and to being handed pill bottles directly by Patrick Clancy.
Prosecutors are expected to argue Clancy understood the nature of her actions despite the defense's mental-health claims. After the killings, Clancy allegedly attempted to take her own life by jumping from that second-story window, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out of the home running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial, underway in Plymouth Superior Court, is expected to last several weeks.

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A psychiatric nurse practitioner named the condition out loud in 2022. Rebecca Jollotta testified she told Lindsay Clancy and her husband that Clancy might have an underlying bipolar disorder, and she prescribed an antipsychotic used to treat it. The antidepressants were not stopped.
Three first-degree murder counts, three not guilty pleas. All three died at the family home on January 24, 2023. Reddington has argued postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder leave her not criminally responsible. Prosecutors say she moved deliberately and understood the consequences.
Tony Brueski and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott close the three-part series on the diagnosis itself.
What pushed Jollotta toward bipolar disorder was partly Clancy's report of going forty-eight hours without sleep after starting an antidepressant. Dr. Jennifer Tufts testified she considered the same diagnosis in December 2022 and dismissed it on the absence of mania, describing the criteria as euphoria, very high energy, and grandiosity.
At McLean, staff testified they observed symptoms that could indicate bipolar disorder and discussed sleep deprivation leading to a hypomanic episode. She rejected that conclusion. She left with paperwork reading major depressive disorder, severe, without psychotic features.
On antidepressants and bipolar patients, the research does not agree with itself, and Shavaun says so. Jurors heard a toxicology witness describe low drug levels.
Nightbird is among her published work.
At McLean, Goodheart testified sleep deprivation can contribute to a manic episode and that she wanted to keep observing Clancy's sleep after discharge. Jollotta also testified Clancy's thinking stayed linear and goal-directed at every appointment, and that Clancy never indicated a plan to harm anyone. Shavaun explains why linear thinking and serious illness are not opposites.

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