Profiling Evil

Barry Morphew was out on a $3 million bond, awaiting trial for the murder of his wife Suzanne and now he may have a brand-new problem as cops put him back in jail. Join my discussion with attorney #JoshuaSchiffer #LawyerSchiff. On August 26, 2026, a pickup truck struck two vehicles near East 8th Avenue and Colorado Boulevard in Denver, Colorado. The driver refused to give his name, said he had no...

The courtroom fell silent as the judge declared a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case — a stunning end to months of emotional testimony and legal wrangling. The decision leaves the families of Cora, Dawson, and Callan without closure, and the legal teams on both sides facing the painful reality that no one walks away a winner. The mistrial underscores the complexity of mental health defenses and t...

GET THE SURVEY: https://arcg.is/1j1TnW2 VIEW THE MAP: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/7a777892a1e748c282554a92007174f4# ============= The Lindsay Clancy jury has now reported an impasse three times and a reported 11–1 split has created extraordinary pressure inside that deliberation room. In this episode, I break down what happened in the last 24 hours, why the defense sought removal of a j...

GET THE SURVEY: https://arcg.is/1j1TnW2 VIEW THE MAP: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/7a777892a1e748c282554a92007174f4# ============= 79% of our worldwide respondents say Lindsay Clancy is guilty. In Massachusetts, that number rises to 86%, and among the Plymouth respondents who participated in our poll, it's currently 100%. But those numbers are not a verdict, and the people who ultimately...

The Lindsay Clancy jury has now spent more than 16 hours deliberating over three days, and there is still no verdict. As the public waits, the jury has asked to review two particularly important pieces of evidence: the knife involved in Lindsay Clancy's suicide attempt and bags containing prescription medication bottles. Many are wondering what should we make of all this? In this episode, let’s ta...

In this episode, we break down the exact choices the jury has in the Lindsay Clancy case under Massachusetts law and invite you to cast your own vote on whether she understood that killing her children was wrong. The links to do this are coming up. This conversation separates emotion from evidence, explores the theory of altruistic filicide, and examines the behavioral sequence of the murders and...

Let’s break down this heartbreaking case of Lindsay Clancy together, the same way we would if you were sitting across from me in a small back office with a single lamp, a stack of case files, and the door cracked open. The Lindsay Clancy case has stirred up a level of emotion and tribalism that’s drowning out the evidence, and I wanted to bring in someone who’s been in the trenches on cases just l...

The Lindsay Clancy murder trial is now in the hands of the jury. The defense says a loving mother was overtaken by postpartum psychosis after months of deteriorating mental health and fragmented treatment. The Commonwealth agrees that Lindsay was struggling, but argues that her actions on January 24, 2023—sending Patrick away, checking the travel time, adding another errand, speaking calmly during...

The Commonwealth saved one of its most direct challenges to Lindsay Clancy’s account for its final rebuttal witness. Dr. Gregory Saathoff, a forensic psychiatrist who has worked with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit for three decades, compared what Lindsay told him with her medical records, digital searches, Patrick Clancy’s account and the physical sequence of events on the day she killed her c...

The Lindsay Clancy trial is difficult to watch because nearly every discussion has centered on Lindsay’s mental health, her treatment and whether she was experiencing psychosis. Meanwhile, her children, Cora, Dawson and Callan are feeling like footnotes in the case, even though they are the reason everyone is in that courtroom. I think we can recognize that Lindsay was seriously ill without losing...

In this episode of Profiling Evil, I sit down with clinical and forensic psychologist Dr. Joni Johnston to examine why some women pursue relationships with men responsible for notorious killings. We begin with Chris Watts, who is serving life without parole for murdering his pregnant wife, Shanann Watts, their daughters, Bella and Celeste, and their unborn son, Nico. With reports that Watts may no...

Nearly thirty years after Tupac Shakur was shot on a Las Vegas street, Duane “Keffe D” Davis is on trial for murder. In this episode, I walk through the prosecution’s retaliation theory, the defense claim that Davis turned fiction into a profitable public persona, and the most important testimony from the first week. We will look at the MGM Grand fight, the white Cadillac, Davis’s protected 2008 i...

On August 8th, 2026, 63-year-old grandmother Alisa Goods stepped out of a Las Vegas home to pick up iron pills from a nearby CVS. She never came back and there aren’t any witnesses we’re aware of, no trace of the woman, just silence. Then four days later, her phone started sending texts to her family asking for gas money and Bitcoin. There's one problem: Alisa Goods doesn't drive and I doubt she e...

Lindsay Clancy has never denied killing her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months old. That's not what this trial is about. The real question in front of the jury is whether she knew, in the legal and moral sense, that what she was doing was wrong — and whether a mental disease or defect took that capacity away from her. Let’s step past the emotion and dig into the actual legal...

In this episode of Profiling Evil, I’m joined by veteran crime reporter Caroline Lowe to discuss the unsolved disappearance of Jodi Huisentruit, the 27-year-old morning news anchor who vanished outside her Mason City, Iowa apartment on June 27, 1995. Jodi had overslept and told her producer she’d be right in for the morning newscast at KIMT-TV. About 20 minutes later, investigators believe she mad...

The Lindsay Clancy trial has moved into the psychiatric care she received before she killed her three children, and the testimony is raising difficult questions about fragmented treatment, repeated medication changes, telehealth and what people mean when they accuse a patient of “doctor shopping.” In this episode, I lay out how many providers were involved, what Lindsay may have been seeking, what...

Chris Watts is serving life without parole for murdering his pregnant wife, Shanann, and their daughters, Bella and Celeste. Now, Lizzie Henderson has publicly confirmed that she is in a relationship with Watts, while reporting says she moved from Ohio to Wisconsin, visited him 23 times in about fifteen months, sought to change her surname and joined him in requesting permission to marry. In this...

Why can two people walk through the same place and notice completely different warning signs? In this special Profiling Evil episode, we’ll draw on lessons from law-enforcement and behavioral-analysis alongside a fascinating peer-reviewed study by Robert A. Chaney, PhD, Alyssa Baer, MPH, and L. Ida Tovar, MPH. The researchers asked 571 college students to examine campus walking environments under...

Days seven and eight of the Lindsay Clancy trial brought the jury toxicology results, DNA findings, testimony from the children’s former nanny, friends and relatives, and deeply difficult medical evidence concerning the murders of Cora, Dawson and Callan Clancy. In this episode, I explain what that testimony added to the prosecution’s case, what it may have handed to the defense, and why the emoti...

Lindsay Clancy spoke in court for the first time during her trial and personally agreed to a broad stipulation covering important parts of the Commonwealth’s forensic case. That was not a guilty plea, and it did not abandon her defense. It simply means prosecutors will not spend days proving evidence the defense does not seriously dispute. In this episode, I look at what Lindsay agreed to, what we...

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department has released two messages connected to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of TODAY co-anchor Savannah Guthrie. One demands millions in Bitcoin and threatens her life. The other claims she died shortly after being taken and was “buried in nature.” In this episode, we examine the communications using forensic linguistics, behavioral threat...

This week’s lead story is the Nancy Guthrie investigation, where Sheriff Chris Nanos says testing of a hair recovered from her Arizona home did not point to a suspect and a separate DNA mixture involving as many as four people remains under examination by laboratories across the country. The forensic update follows Savannah Guthrie’s new video asking whoever took her mother to tell the family wher...

The murder trial of Lindsay Clancy begins with two radically different accounts of the same tragedy. Prosecutors allege that Clancy deliberately created a window of time, sent her husband away, and methodically killed their three children before attempting to take her own life. The defense does not dispute that she caused the children’s deaths. Instead, it argues that months of deteriorating menta...

This week, we’re looking at four cases that have reached very different points in the legal process. In Los Angeles, a judge is hearing the evidence prosecutors say connects musician David Anthony Burke, known as D4vd, to the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. In Buffalo, Hadi Matar is on trial on federal terrorism charges stemming from the 2022 attack on author Salman Rushdie. In Brook...

n 1911, the Mona Lisa vanished from the wall of the Louvre Museum in the center of Paris. One morning she was hanging in the Salon Carré, and shortly after, the most recognizable painting in the world was gone. What followed was a two-year investigation filled with bad assumptions, conflicting witnesses, media pressure, false suspects, radical artists, wealthy collectors, and one ordinary man who...