Showdown in mom's murder trial. Verdict in Microsoft employee murder. Plus, what is postpartum psychosis?

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**Andrea Canning** (0:58)
You're listening in to the Dateline morning meeting.

**Dr. Catherine Burndorf** (1:01)
They have dropped the case on basically the eve of trial.

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Our producers are catching up on breaking crime news.

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It's all over social media.

**Nate Eaton** (1:10)
The DA is joining in on the investigation as well.

**Andrea Canning** (1:14)
Welcome to Dateline True Crime Weekly. I'm Andrea Canning. It's August 27th and here's what's on our docket.
In Florida, a verdict has been reached in the trial of the man accused of hiring a hitman to murder Father of Four and Microsoft employee Jared Bridegan.

**Dr. Catherine Burndorf** (1:31)
In the defense, please rise and harken to the jury's verdict.

**Andrea Canning** (1:34)
In Dateline Round Up, we'll check in on the trial of Keefe D Davis, the former gang leader accused of masterminding the murder of rap legend Tupac Shakur. And Donna Adelson, the Florida grandmother convicted of murdering her former son-in-law, FSU law professor Dan Markel, is demanding a new trial.

**Veronica Mazekka** (1:53)
According to the appeal, Donna was repeatedly warned by the judge to not show emotions during the trial.

**Andrea Canning** (1:59)
Plus, postpartum psychosis. We've been hearing a lot about it at the murder trial of former labor and delivery nurse Lindsay Clancy.
But what exactly is it?

**Dr. Catherine Burndorf** (2:09)
At some point, you may start to lose touch with reality.

**Andrea Canning** (2:13)
But before all that, we're in Massachusetts, where the Clancy trial is winding down. But not without some legal fireworks in the courtroom.
For the past five weeks, we've watched Lindsay Clancy stand trial for the murders of her children. Dozens of witnesses have talked about what might have driven her to kill them. Prosecutors say it was planned, the act of a woman who didn't want to be a mother anymore. The defense says she was not in her right mind. She was overmedicated and suffering from undiagnosed postpartum psychosis. Now, in the final days of the trial, the prosecution has done its best to undermine that theory with three rebuttal witnesses who spent hours evaluating Lindsay Clancy.
Here to tell us what they had to say is Nate Eaton of East Idaho News and the host of the podcast, Courtroom Insider. Nate, welcome back.

**Nate Eaton** (3:03)
Thanks for having me. Good to be here.

**Andrea Canning** (3:05)
Yeah. Nate, as the trial winds down, fair to say this has been maybe the most contentious week of testimony we've seen yet.

**Nate Eaton** (3:13)
For sure. This is the final stretch, and the defense really has to nail its arguments home, while the prosecution has to land their case. It's a battle of the experts. That's what we're seeing play out in court. Which expert is right?

**Andrea Canning** (3:29)
Nate, before we get into their testimony, we should warn listeners that some of what we're going to be talking about is distressing and includes discussion of suicide.
So the first rebuttal witness the prosecution called was Dr. Avram Mack, a forensic psychiatrist who met with Lindsay in April of this year. Nate, what did he have to say?

**Nate Eaton** (3:46)
Well, he evaluated Lindsay over the course of two days. He observed her behavior and went through her medical records from immediately before and after the deaths, and he reached this diagnosis for her.

**Dr. Avram Mack** (3:58)
Her description of her experience, in my view, that matched a major depressive episode.

**Andrea Canning** (4:07)
Did he explain what that meant?

**Nate Eaton** (4:09)
Well, he said that the diagnosis means that an individual displays problems with their mood, experiences guilt or worthlessness, can't sleep, and has a preoccupation with death or suicide. These were all things that Lindsay suffered from, according to the doctor and other doctors who have testified. But Dr. Mack made it clear that he did not believe Lindsay was suffering from psychosis or was overmedicated. He also said that she was very aware that killing her children was wrong.