Hysterical Women: women's mental health crises and the media that defines them
Aug 23, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min · 10 segments
Show Notes: Our recap of week four of the Lindsay Clancy trial. Trigger warnings noted at the beginning of the episode. Please check out Part 1 for the background of this case Connect with us!…
So m- Monday this week, the Commonwealth rested their case after we heard from Ian Wiffen, who is, like, a guy who analyzes the cellphone data.
I didn't think that we got a whole lot of information from him other than they were trying to do, like, map out her day, and I think they were trying to say that her heart rate was low at the time that all of this would've been happening, which I'm not really sure what the implication is there.
I don't know that the Apple Watches are always 100% accurate on that sort of thing.
Yeah.
But also, he was a quite controversial witness in the Karen Read case because he testified to some things that seemed a little suspicious.
They actually brought up that...
In this case, they brought up that the Apple Watch could unintentionally believe that you're going upstairs if you're driving over a hill, because that was a crucial piece of evidence [laughs] in the Karen Read, the Commonwealth's case against Karen Read.
Yeah, I remember the...
I remember I looked it up and saw that that was a big thing, and I remember you saying that w- the biggest thing for you about this te- this testimony was the Karen Read connection.
Yeah, and it felt like they only asked him that thing about, like, can something else cause the watch to think that you're going upstairs, or the phone to think that you're going upstairs, and he said, in rare cases, like driving up a hill.
Mm-hmm.
Which I think was only, they were only saying that because of his previous testimony in Karen Read.
Yeah.
Regardless, I didn't get...
I didn't find that this was much information that was valuable.
Yeah.
And then the Commonwealth rested their case, and then the defense started calling their witnesses.
So m- Monday this week, the Commonwealth rested their case after we heard from Ian Wiffen, who is, like, a guy who analyzes the cellphone data.
I didn't think that we got a whole lot of information from him other than they were trying to do, like, map out her day, and I think they were trying to say that her heart rate was low at the time that all of this would've been happening, which I'm not really sure what the implication is there.
I don't know that the Apple Watches are always 100% accurate on that sort of thing.
Yeah.
But also, he was a quite controversial witness in the Karen Read case because he testified to some things that seemed a little suspicious.
They actually brought up that...
In this case, they brought up that the Apple Watch could unintentionally believe that you're going upstairs if you're driving over a hill, because that was a crucial piece of evidence [laughs] in the Karen Read, the Commonwealth's case against Karen Read.
Yeah, I remember the...
I remember I looked it up and saw that that was a big thing, and I remember you saying that w- the biggest thing for you about this te- this testimony was the Karen Read connection.
Yeah, and it felt like they only asked him that thing about, like, can something else cause the watch to think that you're going upstairs, or the phone to think that you're going upstairs, and he said, in rare cases, like driving up a hill.
Mm-hmm.
Which I think was only, they were only saying that because of his previous testimony in Karen Read.
Yeah.
Regardless, I didn't get...
I didn't find that this was much information that was valuable.
Yeah.
And then the Commonwealth rested their case, and then the defense started calling their witnesses.
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