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YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Wealthy husband accused of strangling pregnant wife makes wild flee to Italy | Drop Dead Serious

Just days before an affluent Houston man was supposed to stand trial for allegedly strangling his pregnant wife, authorities say he vanished, crossed an international border and resurfaced in Italy under a fake identity. Lee Gilley, a 38-year-old software consultant, and his wife, Christa Bauer Gilley, appeared to be building an enviable life together in Houston’s historic Heights neighborhood. But behind that picture of success, prosecutors allege something horrifying was unfolding. On Oct. 7, 2024, Christa was found unresponsive inside the couple’s Houston Heights home as their two young children slept nearby. She was nine weeks pregnant with their third child. The medical examiner later ruled her death a homicide caused by…

AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - Lindsay Clancy's ex-husband describes her 'big spiral' as murder trial opens in Massachusetts

Patrick Clancy took the stand as the first witness in his ex-wife's triple murder trial, describing a psychiatric decline so severe that a legal expert said one detail in his testimony "scared me." Lindsay Clancy, a 36-year-old former labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, faces three counts each of murder and strangulation in […] The post Lindsay Clancy's ex-husband describes her 'big spiral' as murder trial opens in Massachusetts appeared first on American Almanac .

Patrick Clancy took the stand as the first witness in his ex-wife's triple murder trial, describing a psychiatric decline so severe that a legal expert said one detail in his testimony "scared me." Lindsay Clancy, a 36-year-old former labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, faces three counts each of murder and strangulation in the January 2023 deaths of her three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, at the family's home in Duxbury, Massachusetts. She has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Her defense does not dispute that she killed the children. The only question the jury must answer is whether she was criminally responsible when it happened. That question, cold intent or complete psychotic break,…Open