Sep 18, 2026 · 12 min · 7 segments
Eleven search warrants. A knife with no fingerprints. A phone that told two completely different stories, depending on who was reading it. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See…
In the weeks after January 24th, 2023, while the house on Summer Street still had police tape across the door, Massachusetts State Police went in 11 times with search warrants.
A bathrobe, pajamas, a silver knife, swabs from red and brown stains found in different parts of the house, samples of Lindsay Clancy's blood and urine, swabs taken from under her fingernails.
All of it stayed sealed for months.
The public wouldn't see a single page of those warrants until more than a year and a half after it happened.
This episode is about what was in those pages.
And about how, even inside those pages, there still isn't just one way to read them.
Let's start with what investigators found first and what they didn't.
On the exercise bands and on the knife, investigators weren't able to get usable fingerprints.
It's a technical detail, almost a footnote, but it matters.
Most of what came after the entire case, really, wouldn't be built on a fingerprint on a physical object.
It would be built on something else.
Paper, notebooks, a phone, a search history.
According to the search warrants themselves, in those notebooks and on that phone, Lindsay had documented her mental state, her feelings about her children, and a careful log of her medications.
Investigators described part of that content with a phrase that would become, months later, the headline of dozens of articles.
That she had been, in their words, researching ways to kill.
It's worth pausing on that phrase because the court documents themselves, as they were made public in 2023, don't specify which exact internet searches back it up.
It's a phrase that summarizes investigators' conclusion.
It isn't, at that point, a direct quote of what she wrote or looked up.
That would change.
Just not in 2023.
It would change three years later, in a courtroom.
Before we get there, there's one piece of testimony that was on the record from the start, inside those same search warrants.
In the weeks after January 24th, 2023, while the house on Summer Street still had police tape across the door, Massachusetts State Police went in 11 times with search warrants.
A bathrobe, pajamas, a silver knife, swabs from red and brown stains found in different parts of the house, samples of Lindsay Clancy's blood and urine, swabs taken from under her fingernails.
All of it stayed sealed for months.
The public wouldn't see a single page of those warrants until more than a year and a half after it happened.
This episode is about what was in those pages.
And about how, even inside those pages, there still isn't just one way to read them.
Let's start with what investigators found first and what they didn't.
On the exercise bands and on the knife, investigators weren't able to get usable fingerprints.
It's a technical detail, almost a footnote, but it matters.
Most of what came after the entire case, really, wouldn't be built on a fingerprint on a physical object.
It would be built on something else.
Paper, notebooks, a phone, a search history.
According to the search warrants themselves, in those notebooks and on that phone, Lindsay had documented her mental state, her feelings about her children, and a careful log of her medications.
Investigators described part of that content with a phrase that would become, months later, the headline of dozens of articles.
That she had been, in their words, researching ways to kill.
It's worth pausing on that phrase because the court documents themselves, as they were made public in 2023, don't specify which exact internet searches back it up.
It's a phrase that summarizes investigators' conclusion.
It isn't, at that point, a direct quote of what she wrote or looked up.
That would change.
Just not in 2023.
It would change three years later, in a courtroom.
Before we get there, there's one piece of testimony that was on the record from the start, inside those same search warrants.
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