Straight Talk with Bill Frady 9/4/26 Hour 2 - Heidi Harris, guest-hosting for Bill Frady, discusses the Lindsay Clancy trial, jury dynamics, fatherhood, and media coverage.

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Transcript [Segment 1] Heidi Harris: Good afternoon. Always a privilege sitting in for Bill Frady. I want to get right back to your phone calls. I know you all have a lot to say about the Lindsay Clancy situation. Now, about an hour and a half ago, they went into court and the judge declared a mistrial because they could not come to an agreement, if you're just catching up now. One person's a holdout. We assume, based on everything that's been said and based on the fact that the defense attorney wants him replaced, we're going to assume that that guy is the only guy holding up letting this girl go free. That's what we're just going to assume. And then the judge was going to declare a mistrial, and then the attorney tried to say, "Well, I want to get a stay." What he wants is the juror replaced. He doesn't want a mistrial because then we're going to have to start all over again and do another trial. He just wants another juror put in there that he thinks could be schmoozed into thinking this girl's, you know... And he also made some comment, and I'm not sure what he meant by this, but he felt the juror was prejudiced against handicapped people or something. Remember, she's in a wheelchair because she jumped out of a, you know, a window that wouldn't kill probably pretty much anyone. So I, you know, I don't know. You know, when you're—listen, when you're a defense attorney, let's be honest, your job is to throw everything up there and try to get it to stick. You throw all kinds of things at the jury that cause them to have doubt about what the prosecution is saying. I know y'all get this. You can't blame the guy for trying everything, although I did think his closing argument was pretty weak. Let me get back to the phone calls. 800-905-0989. Susan from Greenwood, you've been very patient. Thanks for joining The Bill Frady Show. Susan: Oh, thank you for having me. How long do I have? My story starts in 1984. Heidi Harris: Well, so what's your story about? Susan: I suffered from the same thing that Lindsay Clancy... I was always so embarrassed about it that I never talked about it until this trial. And I left my family because one day, I had two small daughters, 8 and 10, and a baby. I had a terrible pregnancy. My house burned down, my brother got killed, and I was in the hospital several times while I was pregnant. But anyway, and we were building a house. And I became so depressed, so much anxiety for some reason. My doctor gave me all kinds of sedatives, antidepressants, all this stuff, and I just became a wacko zombie. I was a PTO president, I had great friends, a nice home, had a job that I worked out of home to take care of my young daughters. But I just went absolutely crazy. And I, on the way home one day from shopping, I had thought about it and figured out where the best and biggest tree along the highway was that I could run into. On the way home from shopping, when I was approaching that tree that I had picked out over the last week or so, I approached that tree and was just about to hit it. And God told me, "Don't do that." But I went home. I went home, packed some clothes, and walked out. I did not want to risk that again. I couldn't explain why. Everybody hated me. They talked bad about me, called me every name in the book. I became an alcoholic. I lived with this for years and never knew, never understood why I had done this, I had left my children, I had all these issues. I went to doctor after doctor, they loaded me up with medicine. And like I said, I became an alcoholic. I showed up at work on a Saturday morning, you know, just stuff like that. Heidi Harris: Wow. Susan: And then finally, I went into a mental health clinic in Columbia. I was there for two weeks because I checked myself in. They gave me—they told me I had mama issues, you know, bad husband issues, which I didn't, my husband was wonderful. And so finally, I had a female psychiatrist start treating me. And she told me, she said, "You ...

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