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It's August 20th and here's what's on our docket.
In Manhattan, United Healthcare CEO Shooter, Luigi Mangione, makes a stunning admission. We heard from Mangione in his own words, "Actually describe the events leading up to the shooting." In December, 2024.
In Date Line Roundup, the Alec Murdoch saga continues in South Carolina with some major rulings. And the first of three people charged in the murder of Microsoft Employee, Jared Brightigan, is now on trial. Jared's widow takes the stand.
She was immediately emotional. Plus, Ghost Guns, police found one in Luigi Mangione's backpack. What exactly are they?
“And why do they make investigations so difficult?”
When you have a firearm that doesn't have a serial number on it, it isn't able to be effectively traced in the traditional method. But before all that, we're heading to Massachusetts for the trial of a former labor and delivery nurse accused of murdering her three young children.
And a warning, some of what we'll be discussing is upsetting and involves mentions of suicide. After three weeks of testimony, prosecutors rested their case against Lindsay Clancy. The 36-year-old mother they believe was of sound mined,
the night of January 24th, 2023. When she killed her three young children, Chora, Calen, and Dawson. Prosecutors called about 70 witnesses, including the children's father, Patrick Clancy,
the psychiatrist who treated Lindsay,
and the first responders dispatched to the horrifying scene.
Jurors won't have to decide who killed the children. Lindsay already admitted to that. The question is, why did she do it? Lindsay says she was over-medicated and suffering from undiagnosed postpartum psychosis at the time.
On Monday, the defense began calling witnesses and Jurors got to hear from those who knew Lindsay best. Here to walk us through their testimony is Nate Eaton of the East Idaho News and host of the podcast Court Room Insider.
Nate, welcome back. Thank you, Andrea, good to see you. Yeah, you too. So, Nate, the first witness the defense called was Margaret Hampe.
She is a nurse who worked with Lindsay at the labor and delivery unit at Mass General Hospital. Yeah, they worked together for about seven years. Margaret described Lindsay as a very compassionate nurse. She was kind, she really related well to the patients.
She actually get emotional off and helping patients. When they were giving birth, it really touched Lindsay. She would cry and she would just say that was so beautiful. You can just tell that she really loved being in that setting. And she went on to talk about how the two worked
the night shifts together and Lindsay would often ask for parenting advice from her coworkers. Things like, how do I find the right daycare to how do I monogram my lunch box? She was a really involved mother.
So Margaret Hampe also described an instance where a patient arrived at the unit with plans to harm herself while she was pregnant. And she said this happened the summer Lindsay started working at Mass General.
She recalled talking to Lindsay about mental health in pregnancy and postpartum. Right. And she actually asked her specifically if she had heard about the Andrea Yates case.
Lindsay had not heard of it. Andrea Yates was the mother who confessed to drowning her five children back in 2001.
She claimed she suffered severe postpartum depression.
She was ultimately found not guilty
by reason of insanity. Hampe described Lindsay's reaction to learning about the Yates case and says that Lindsay cried. And she said, how could mother
heard her children? Lindsay's sister and mother were
“also among the first few defense witnesses.”
They described how Lindsay's mental state was deteriorating in the months before the children were killed. Here is her sister, Ellison Oska, recalling how Lindsay was
around Christmas time 2022. She was reporting. Her mood was worsening as she described as depression. Her, she was having more suicidal thoughts.
She was insomnia continued to be an issue. She was really not feeling like herself. Ellison went on to say that Lindsay told her she had suicidal ideations every single day that month.
Lindsay's mother, Paula Musgrove, she was asked about a text message. Lindsay sent to her around that time a little bit earlier than that Christmas. Yeah, and Lindsay's defense attorney Kevin
Reddington presented that text message. A message that Lindsay sent on October 20th. She had Lindsay's mother read that to the jurors. Mom, will you please come up and stay with me for a bit?
I'm really sick. Something is wrong. I had horrible insomnia all night. And I just don't know how I'm going to get through the day. I started taking the medicine.
My doctor prescribed for anxiety. And I think it's made things worse. It's just really scary. And I don't want to be alone. Lindsay's mother went on to say that she stayed with her daughter
for about a week after receiving that message. She testified that she stayed with Lindsay several other times in the months leading up to her children's death to help her daughter. And she said that Lindsay was so afraid to be alone
that she even once asked her mom if she could sleep beside her, which she did. Lindsay also told her mom that she believed all the medications she was taking were destroying her mind.
“She said that she couldn't remember anything.”
She said that this isn't me. I just want to feel better and enjoy my kids again. Well, so Paula, her mom told jurors that by Christmas, Lindsay was in a terrible state. And she remembered something else that was disturbing
that Lindsay told her and Lindsay's then husband Patrick Clancy.
This is the first time we heard this Andrea.
Lindsay's mom described how Lindsay was very nervous when she told her mother and Patrick. I just have to tell you guys something. She told us that she had thoughts of harming the children. This is all very hard to hear Nate.
This is such a tough trial. How did Lindsay's mom appear on the stand? How painful for her to have to get up there in this courtroom of this very public trial and have to be talking about all this about her daughter?
Yeah, I mean, she's testifying it. Her daughter's murder trial. It was an extremely emotional experience for her. Also, she's talking about the deaths of her grandchildren. whom she loved very much.
She was a very involved grandmother. She became the most emotional talking about her three grandkids. I loved my grandchildren with all my heart.
And you never know what it's like to love a grandchild
and she'll you become a grandmother. And it was the most beautiful thing. I loved them with all my heart. So painful. Lindsay's mother wasn't the only grandmother to testify.
Her former mother-in-law Susan Clancy also took the stand.
“Yeah, now remember these are defense witnesses.”
So these are the witnesses backing Lindsay up. This is Patrick Clancy's mother Susan. And Patrick Clancy was married to Lindsay and the father to their children. He's also standing beside her. He's already testified in the trial.
In fact, he was the first witness they called by the prosecution. So it's interesting now to see the mother testifying about how Lindsay reached out to her for help as well. Susan Clancy was a former labor and delivery nurse herself for 38 years. And she talks about referring Lindsay to a clinic
at self-shore hospital for women struggling with postpartum. Right, Lindsay went to her mother-in-law and said I need some help. And this is where I got kind of interesting. When the commonwealth was presenting its case, they were certainly trying to paint Lindsay as a patient who didn't take her medications
as had been prescribed. But Lindsay's defense attorney Kevin Rettington asked Susan about this. She's answering both as a health care professional and as a grandmother here. Did you find that Lindsay was interested at all times
to get better and see Doc? Very much so.
Did you find it all with your observations of Lindsay as to whether or not sh...
We just burn it and not see Doc's and that she was dreaming. Begging for help. Nate before we go our local affiliate at B.C. 10 in Boston, they've been in the courtroom and they've observed that more than half of the 18 jurors in this trial, skew older, maybe in their 50s are above.
Some may even be grandparents.
“It's an interesting demographic for a trial like this, right?”
Yeah, it is an interesting thing. But also think about the people that are involved in this case. You have Kevin Rettington, Lindsay's attorney. He's 75 years old. No nonsense, local guy who's done dozens, hundreds of trials over the years.
He's held onto Lindsay's hand when she has sobbed during difficult testimony. Kind of like in a grandfather or a fatherly kind of way. Then you have the prosecutors, both women, younger, noticeably younger than Rettington, one often wears bows in her hair. And there's been multiple studies, Andrea, on how the age of jurors can impact deliberations.
Those studies have found that older jurors are significantly more likely to convict versus younger jurors. But it's an interesting dynamic to see how this is unfolding every day. And we'll see if age really did play a factor at all.
Or if it's more of a human type of connection or how these jurors ultimately reach their decision.
And I know just as a mother of six, the more time that separates you from when you gave birth to your children, the more you start to forget, you know how hard things can be. Absolutely. If you're going through this last year or within the past two years,
“you're going to remember far more clearer than if you were raising kids decades ago.”
When the circumstances surrounding postpartum and mental illness weren't discussed as openly as they are now. Really good point, Nate. Well, we will keep an eye on this as the defense keeps calling witnesses. And of course, a lot of people are waiting to see if Lindsay herself will testify. It feels like a tricky decision, but when she will have to make Nate,
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On Friday, correction officers escorted Luigi Mangione into a lower Manhattan federal courthouse. He was wearing tan prison scrubs with his leg shackled. It will be two years this December since United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown. Mangione had something to tell the judge.
He pleaded guilty to two federal stocking charges admitting he shot Thompson that chilly morning. But Mangione's saga is far from over. Less than an hour after the hearing ended, his defense team filed a motion asking to dismiss the eight charges he's facing in state court.
Including second degree murder.
He is still pleading not guilty to those charges. And now his upcoming state trial has been postponed indefinitely. NBC News senior legal correspondent Laura Jarrett is here to break it all down and tell us what this means for Mangione. Laura, thank you for being here. So happy to join you.
So we have both been covering this case for a while now since the day of the shooting in December of 2024. There was the manhunt and then eventually the arrest of Luigi Mangione and a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania. And so much has happened since then. But throughout it all, Mangione has maintained his innocence, Laura. Now here we are with him taking this plea.
It is really big in this case. It's a really remarkable moment, given just how aggressive and zealous this legal team has been. And even despite the skill to play, my inbox is flooded with people saying he's not guilty.
Free Mangione and so to have this moment where he finally in his own words had to admit that he was in fact guilty.
It's just kind of starting. Karen Agnifalo, one of Mangione's attorneys. She spoke outside of court after the plea hearing. Let's take a listen to what she had to say. Despite this being a single isolated event, Mr. Mangione has been unfairly treated since the outset in every way, fighting at the same time.
Two simultaneous prosecutions in two jurisdictions who are trying to punish him twice for the exact conduct.
Before we get to the actual plea, Laura, can you just give us a breakdown of ...
Yeah, sometimes you see these sort of dual prosecutions going on parallel tracks.
“In this case, the feds came out swinging with a whole bunch of charges.”
They then as a result of a bunch of defense motions got wittled down to stalking. That's on the federal side.
Then on the state side, he faces a charge of second degree murder as well as a number of gun charges.
It's something that he's attorneys Andrea have talked about double jeopardy as this principle of, you know, not being tried twice. Since the very beginning of this case when he was facing charges in Pennsylvania and in New York and, you know, on the federal and state level. And almost immediately, everyone sort of just brush to the side is like, yeah, yeah, whatever you can be tried in different jurisdictions. And only now in this moment, just weeks away from trial does the whole prospect of double jeopardy really take on some salience because he is now, in fact,
in fact, pled guilty and set to be convicted in federal court. This is like a game of legal chess. I feel like we're dealing with here. It's an, it's like a law school exam. This entire Manjioni case is a law school exam.
“All right, so back to federal court, just sort of give us some color in the courtroom who showed up to this hearing.”
So Brian Thompson's ex wife and mother were there.
We believe this is likely the first time they've actually been in the same room and confronted Manjiari.
They were emotional as you might imagine listening to him at Met in Open Court to what he did. We did not see or have any reporting to suggest that anyone from Manjioni's family was there. The judge asked Manjioni to stand his own words why he believed he was guilty of the charges. So for the first time, we heard from Manjioni in his own words actually describe the events leading up to the shooting in December of 2024. We heard him describe how he was in severe pain. He had back pain. He was navigating the health insurance industry.
But we also learned Andrea that he actually reaches out to executives at United Healthcare to learn the location of the investor conference. We're Brian Thompson was supposed to be in Manhattan and he actually posed as an investor.
And he said that he was managing over 50 billion in assets. And so he was requesting information about the conference for that reason.
He talks about traveling to New York. He talks about how he got there. He talks about using the 3D printer to make the gun. Again, all of these little bits and pieces he's giving us. Of course, as reporters, we want more, but they also are intentional Andrea, because every time he talks about the gun, he's not just talking about it for like fun and to add detail. He's mentioning the gun because he's facing weapon charges in state court.
So he wants to make sure he gets in all of the details so that he can encapsulate everything that could possibly come his way in state court to say, Hey, look, see I admitted everything in the court. And we should be clear, Manjioni wasn't offered anything in exchange for this plea that we know of correct? No, so this is what's known as an open plea. And the prosecutors really wanted to emphasize this because when we think about a deal, you think about like a tit for tat.
Someone got one thing. Someone else got something else. Prosecutors want to emphasize, we got a guilty plea on the exact thing that we charged with in the indictment. The state trial was set to go for it in just a few weeks.
“And that's why the timing of all this was so critical and so sensitive for him to get the federal piece of this buttoned up.”
Now that he has pled guilty in federal court and he has a sentencing date there. Now we see in state court the judge postponing the state case because the defense is saying, Well, he's now pled guilty. He cannot be tried twice for the same offenses, the same act, the same criminal transaction. Thankfully, New York law does not permit a person to be prosecuted and punished twice for the exact same crime under a statute.
That governs successive prosecutions. And we just filed our motion and state court explaining why the state charges must be dismissed under New York's double jeopardy protections. Laura could something like this actually work. Yes, I think that there's actually a chance that reason why Andrea is because New York law on this issue of being tried twice is very favorable to defendants. And it's it's it's much more all encompassing than even the US constitution is when it comes to double jeopardy.
The New York law says as long as it's all part of the same criminal transaction. Then that person cannot be tried twice. What is the prosecutions response to this and I'm talking about prosecutors in state court.
Yes, so prosecutors in state court believe that this case should still go for...
They are going to fight her hard on this prosecutors basic line will be this is not the same crime.
This has different elements.
“So there's a stocking charge in federal court, which has a different element than a secondary murder charge in in state court, for instance, stalking and murder address different harms.”
And therefore, you cannot see these two as as the same for the purposes of double jeopardy and he is still pleading not guilty. To those state charges that has not changed. As of this moment, he has still on record in state court having pled not guilty, but only saying that he believes the state charges should now go away entirely. Okay, so as for his admission in federal court, federal guidelines for stalking suggest a sentence of 24 to 30 years. But the judge is not bound by that, so me and Giovanni could actually face a much harsher sentence in prison.
Laura, when will that sentence take place? That will move forward to sentencing on December 18 on December 10th. At the same time, the judge in state court is going to hear arguments from both sides about whether or not that case should still go forward. And so there's going to be a whole lot of paper flying in December around the holidays.
“This is going to be a big month for all of this. Laura, thank you for so splendidly breaking this down for us because it is very complicated.”
And for those of us who are not attorneys, you're definitely making it a lot easier for us to understand. We appreciate that. Thanks. Up next, it's time for Date Line Roundup. Alec Murdoch is back in court ahead of his upcoming retrial, and one of the three people charged with murdering 33-year-old Jared Brightigan, faces a jury.
Plus, after Luigi Mangione's admission, we had questions about homemade firearms. A retired ATF special agent joins us to talk about Ghost Guns. Welcome back. Joining me for this week's Roundup is Date Line Producer Carol Gable. Hey, Carol.
Hey, how are you doing? Good.
Up first, Carol, we are talking about former attorney Alec Murdoch.
He was back in a South Carolina courthouse for his second pretrial hearing since his double murder convictions were overturned. And Carol, this is a saga you've been following from the very beginning. Remind us about the first murder trial, and why Murdoch was granted a new one. So just to recap, Alec Murdoch went on trial in 2023 for the murders of his wife Maggie and his youngest son Paul. The jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to two life sentences.
Soon after that conviction is the vencing filed in appeal for a new trial. His appeal was denied, but eventually it made its way to the South Carolina Supreme Court. And this past May, the justices rule that Murdoch would get a new trial.
“Carol, what was the point of this pretrial hearing?”
So on the agenda on this day was the all-important change of venue, both sides agreed to change the venue. What they didn't do is come to an agreement on where that new trial should be held. The judge said in this most recent hearing that she would decide and let them know where the trial will be held.
Carol, one of the things as well for this hearing was whether or not Alec Murdoch's testimony from his first trial could be admissible in his second trial.
And that was a huge, huge win for the prosecution. The judge said that portions of his previous testimony would be allowed in this new trial. And then it sets up another problem for the defense, because should he decide to testify again, you know the immediate question is going to be, were you telling the truth then? Are you telling the truth now?
OK, we'll keep an eye on that one for sure. Next up, we are turning to Florida, where the trial is underway for the first of three defendants accused of murdering 33-year-old Jared Brightigan, who was shot and killed in Jacksonville Beach in February 2022. He got out of his car to move a tire blocking the road when he was shot. His two-year-old daughter, sadly, was in the backseat.
Prosecutors alleged that Brightigan's ex-wife, Shannon Gardner, and her husband, Mario Fernandez, Saldana, hired a man named Henry Tenon to ambush Brightigan and carry out the killing.
All three defendants in this case have been charged with several crimes, incl...
So, Carol, first of all, just remind us what prosecutors say the motive was here.
So, prosecutors say this really goes back to this long bitter custody battle between Jared and his ex-wife, Shannon Gardner, over the twins they shared. Jared had actually just dropped the twins' office, Shannon's house right before he was killed. Now, the prosecutors believe, Shannon and her husband, Mario Fernandez, Saldana, came up with that plan to get Jared out of the picture because of the ongoing disputes.
Tenon is said to go on trial next year, Shannon Gardner's trial is coming up next month. The trial of her husband, Mario Fernandez Saldana, that got underway on Monday. In opening statements, prosecutors told jurors they will hear evidence that Saldana helped orchestrate Jared's murder and hired Henry Tenon to carry it out. The defense has tenon acted alone, and there is no evidence tying Saldana to the killing. Carol tells us about some of the testimony that we've heard so far.
Yes, the first person the prosecution called was a woman named Janelle Cruz.
She described the moment she and her husband spotted broadigens car that night. But the most gripping part of her testimony came when she described finding Jared's two-year-old daughter, Bexley, still inside the car. Bexley is one of the two children, Bridegan shared with his second wife, Kirsten, Janelle described talking to Bexley.
She was shaking, she was like panting as if she's been crying. She was telling us that her dad is her underground along those lines, and asking if the police were going to help her daddy. One of the biggest moments came when prosecutors called Jared's widow Kirsten, Bridegan. Yes, Andrea, when she took the stand, she was immediately emotional.
“Are you the widow of the deceased victim in this case, Jared, Bridegan?”
You know, where are you originally from?
I was born in California, but we're used to most of my life in the Seattle Washington area. Yeah, and we actually interviewed Kirsten here on the podcast. Now, here she is on the stand, prosecutor spent a lot of time asking her about that custody battle. Kirsten described that co-parenting relationship between yourself and Jared and Shana, and Fernanda Saldana as pretty terrible.
She said there had been repeated disputes involving the twins. It was very tense, you could just feel the tension. And Kirsten testified that after she learned Jared had been shot and killed, she pointed investigators toward two people. And who were those individuals?
Mario Fernanda's in Shannon Garden.
“Why was she so sure that this was Jared's ex and her new husband?”
Kirsten said that as far as she knew, the only people who had an ongoing conflict with him were Shana and Fernanda Saldana. The defense kept its cross pretty brief. Well, very brief. The defense questioned Kirsten on the custody battle, and now active it really was at the time of Jared's murder. They also got Kirsten to acknowledge that despite all the tension,
she wasn't aware of Shana or Mario ever directly threatening Jared. Okay, Carol, and this trial is just getting started. We will be following it. Thank you for bringing us round up this week. Well, thanks for having me. For our final story this week,
we want to take a closer look at something we mentioned earlier that played a big role in the Luigi Mangeoni case. Ghost Guns. When Mangeoni was arrested, police found a partially assembled 3D printed pistol in his backpack that he used to shoot CEO Brian Thompson. We alleged he then took out a 9mm 3D printed ghost gun,
equipped with a 3D printed suppressor, and shot him once in the back, and once in the leg. We don't often hear about 3D printed guns in our dateline cases.
“So, what exactly is a ghost gun, and how do they affect investigations?”
Here to help us understand is Derek Pleasence, a retired special agent from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. Welcome to the podcast, Derek. Yeah, happy to be here. Derek, what are ghost guns?
Just explain it to all of us who have heard about them, but maybe don't know exactly what they are. Sure, now a ghost gun is a colloquial term for a privately manufactured firearm. That doesn't have the ability to be effectively traced by law enforcement hence the term being a ghost gun.
Okay, so they are not produced by a licensed manufacturer,
Which is something that law enforcement wants obviously, right?
Because there's a record of it, there's a serial number.
“You know, there's a way to trace a gun if it's purchased properly.”
Correct, correct, so the term we used crime gun intelligence. Firearms are a tool that are used by the criminal element in the course of their business. It is also one of their key weaknesses. So through crime gun intelligence, we're able to trace a firearm from its point of manufacture to its entry into commerce
where it's actually sold in its critical when you have a firearm that doesn't have a serial number on it. It isn't able to be effectively traced in the traditional method. And so even though law enforcement obviously would prefer that everyone have a serial number and properly purchase their firearms,
people are still allowed to have these ghost guns.
Correct, so the reality is American citizens under a second amendment
are allowed to build their own firearm for their personal use and they don't have a requirement to market with the serial number. So my seven year old son is obsessed with 3D printers. He thinks it's really cool. He gets has all these little toys.
“But 3D printers are how people are making these ghost guns, right?”
Not entirely. Most of these firearms that are referred to as ghost guns are technically privately manufactured firearms. I haven't seen any detailed evidence on the mannequin only case. However, I have seen some photos that are reported to be the weapon that was used.
It appears to be a privately manufactured firearm built from a kit with additional components.
So some of the parts of Manjioni's gun were 3D printed is what I understand.
I haven't seen the weapon in question definitively. But the photos that I have seen indicate that it is the lower receiver, the firearm portion of it is a polymer. And it appears to be consistent in appearance with other privately manufactured firearms. They are 3D printed at some point in time in their manufacturing process.
How easy is it to build one of these guns? They're not particularly difficult.
“You need to have some basic tools and drill bits of fights.”
But if you have basic skills and know how to use hand tools and you have some patience, you can build a privately manufactured firearm. How hard is it for police to investigate a ghost gun that has no serial number? I mean, it's, it's so tricky. It can be functionally impossible to put up bluntly.
It can be functionally impossible. The investigators have to be able to find and link that human contact trail of how that firearm moved from a hand to hand and ended up used in that crime. Even though the gun that Manjioni used to kill Brian Thompson did not have a serial number investigators were able to match the shell caseings found at the crime scene to his gun.
So a ghost gun, it sounds entirely anonymous, but it's really not. No, yeah, that's correct. So it's a tool. It's a tool today that we can't effectively trace without extra effort. However, it is still a tool that expels a projectile by means of it explode.
So that's going to be tool marks. And what happens then? Actually, it's semi-automatic pistol where it ejects the cartridge. Those markings are unique to the firearm that produces it. So we can recover fired cartridge caseings from the scene and we can recover the weapon.
We can physically link those two items to the crime scene and to the weapon that is recovered. In Manjioni's case, a silencer was also allegedly used in the killing. You don't hear about too many cases with silencers. You think of, you know, the mob or something like contract killings. How do they silencers come in to these crimes?
Yes. So the use of the silencer in a violent crime is exceptionally rare. It is very, very rare to actually see that happen. However, a silencer isn't itself considered a firearm by the United States government. The National Firearms Act currently requires that a silencer be registered in the National Firearms
Registration and Transfer record. And if you use a unregistered silencer in a crime of violence, you do expose yourself to increased punishments, increased charges. In fact, if you use a silencer and if they weapon in a crime of violence results in death, your potential exposure is up to light without parole.
We should say, Derek, that while any federal charges against Manjioni relating to a silencer have been dismissed, he still faces state firearm charges that he has pleaded not guilty to. Thank you so much for joining us today in sharing your knowledge on this topic that we just don't hear too much about, but you've shed a lot of light on it. Thank you for having me on.
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