Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald
Sep 9, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min · 18 segments
I’m sitting down with forensic psychologist Dr. Leslie Dobson for an intense episode where we break down the complex mental health and legal aspects of the horrific Lindsay Clancy case. From there, we…
We don't know what's going on with, um, what's gonna happen with the Lindsay Clancy case.
But you get asked to be on a lot of sh- other shows, besides mine, though mine's the best.
[laughs] But it was talking about, you know, uh, Nancy's never really believed that, uh, NGRI or the insanity plea was, um, real.
Like, she does, as a prosecutor, have a, a, a lean towards it being a cop-out.
And she was talking to this other attorney, who was like, "No, just lock her up." And he said, "I don't have to understand psychosis to understand this case." And that pissed me off, because yes, you do.
If you're gonna have any kind of platform, if you're gonna be in any trial, you need to understand the mental health of the client if it's an insanity trial.
We don't know what's going on with, um, what's gonna happen with the Lindsay Clancy case.
But you get asked to be on a lot of sh- other shows, besides mine, though mine's the best.
[laughs] But it was talking about, you know, uh, Nancy's never really believed that, uh, NGRI or the insanity plea was, um, real.
Like, she does, as a prosecutor, have a, a, a lean towards it being a cop-out.
And she was talking to this other attorney, who was like, "No, just lock her up." And he said, "I don't have to understand psychosis to understand this case." And that pissed me off, because yes, you do.
If you're gonna have any kind of platform, if you're gonna be in any trial, you need to understand the mental health of the client if it's an insanity trial.
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