Lindsay Clancy Trial: Medical Examiner Testifies Cora and Dawson Felt Pain

**Tony Brueski** (0:00)
This is live courtroom coverage of the trial of Lindsay Clancy from the Hidden Killers podcast in True Crime Today. Now, back to the courtroom.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:12)
Hi, good afternoon.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:13)
Good afternoon, how are you?

**SPEAKER_2** (0:14)
Good, thanks. Just going to ask you to keep your voice up so the jury can hear you and speak into that microphone, okay?

**Tony Brueski** (0:19)
Okay.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:20)
Thank you. Yes, come on.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:21)
Thank you. Could you please tell the jury your first and last name?

**Tony Brueski** (0:24)
Yeah.

**Nichole Bradley** (0:25)
Nichole Bradley.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:26)
And where do you work?

**SPEAKER_3** (0:27)
Plymouth County Sheriff's Department.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:29)
What do you do there?

**Nichole Bradley** (0:30)
I'm an Assistant Deputy Superintendent of the Field Services Division.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:33)
And as one of the roles of the Field Services Division, does the Sheriff's Department engage in what's called Hospital Watch?

**Nichole Bradley** (0:42)
Yes, we do.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:42)
Can you tell us very briefly what that is? Yep.

**Nichole Bradley** (0:45)
So if any safe keep, detainee or inmate goes over to the hospital, we use our deputies and matrons to cover them on a security watch.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:53)
And are the employees from the Sheriff's Department who are on those watches required to log the activity of who comes and goes from the individuals who they are there to watch?

**Nichole Bradley** (1:05)
Yes, they are.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:06)
And are those records kept in the normal course of business at the Sheriff's Department? Yes, they are. And you are familiar with those records and what they look like? Yes, I am. If I may approach.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:15)
Okay. More approach and then-

**SPEAKER_4** (1:18)
Yes, please. Thank you.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:20)
Then, there will be no objection.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:24)
Just going to show you a packet. If you could take a quick look at that. Does that packet reflect the hospital logs that are kept by the Sheriff's Department?

**Nichole Bradley** (1:40)
Yes, they are.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:40)
And you're familiar that between January 25th, 2023, and December, excuse me, February 3rd of 2023, that the Sheriff's Department engaged in hospital watch on a patient family member, Lindsay Clancy.

**Nichole Bradley** (1:54)
Yes, I am.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:56)
All right. Those may be admitted.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:00)
227

**SPEAKER_4** (2:05)
No further questions. Thank you.

**SPEAKER_2** (2:06)
Ms. Reddington?

**SPEAKER_4** (2:07)
No.

**Nichole Bradley** (2:07)
Thank you. All right.

**SPEAKER_2** (2:08)
Thank you, ma'am.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:09)
Thank you very much.

**SPEAKER_2** (2:15)
Good afternoon.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:16)
Good afternoon.

**Nichole Bradley** (2:17)
All right.

**SPEAKER_2** (2:18)
Ms. Sprague?

**SPEAKER_4** (2:19)
Thank you, Your Honor.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:20)
Good afternoon. Can you please state and spell your name for the record?

**Renee Stonebridge** (2:22)
Yes. My name is Renee Stonebridge, R-E-N-E-E, S-T-O-N-E, B-R-I-D-G-E.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:28)
Where do you work?

**Renee Stonebridge** (2:29)
I work at the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at the Boston office.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:33)
And what department do you work for?

**Renee Stonebridge** (2:35)
I work for the Chief Medical Examiner's Office.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:38)
And how long have you worked there?

**Renee Stonebridge** (2:39)
I have worked there since July of 2017

**SPEAKER_3** (2:44)
And can you describe your educational background?

**Renee Stonebridge** (2:47)
Yes. I did four years of college at SUNY at Stony Brook in New York. I was a double major in German languages and literature and biology. And then I did four years at the American University of Antietam, where I got my medical degree. I also graduated with honors, magna cum laude. After that, I did a four-year combined anatomic and clinical pathology residency program at NYU Winthrop Hospital in Long Island, New York. I also served as chief resident during my final year there, so 2016 and 2017
After that, I did a one-year forensic pathology fellowship at the Boston Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. And then after that, I did a two-year neuropathology fellowship program through Brown University at Rhode Island Hospital. And I am board certified in forensic pathology, anatomic pathology, clinical pathology, and neuropathology.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:41)
What is neuropathology?

**Renee Stonebridge** (3:42)
Neuropathology is the study of the brain, the dura, the eyes, and spinal cord, and muscle.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:50)
What is your role at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner here in Massachusetts?

**Renee Stonebridge** (3:54)
My role there is the director of cardiac and neuropathology. I'm also a medical examiner, but my primary focus is brains and hearts.

**SPEAKER_3** (4:03)
Will there be an occasion where a medical examiner is doing an autopsy, and they will send you either a brain or eyes or things of that nature to examine? Yes.
Why are those things sent to you in particular?

**Renee Stonebridge** (4:19)
We have certain criteria that is followed in order for a neuropathology consult to occur. Some occasions are any children under the age of two, I am to receive the brain, typically the spinal cord, depends on circumstances, the eyes and the duret as well.