Hung: In the Balance is a true crime podcast exploring cases that resist easy answers. In each episode, mother and daughter Christie and Maryn examine the same criminal case from two distinct perspectives. Christie steps into the jury box, evaluating each case strictly through trial testimony, transcripts, and admitted evidence as presented inside the courtroom. Maryn looks beyond the trial, investigating media coverage, background information, and public opinion to uncover the bigger picture. Together, they explore the space between the courtroom and the court of public opinion, challenging assumptions, questioning conclusions, and discovering how two perspectives can lead to very different interpretations of the same evidence. Because sometimes, even after the verdict, the truth remains in the balance.
9.1 Lindsay Clancy: Best Day, Worst Night — Murder or Mental Break?
In January 2023, a Massachusetts mother was accused of killing her three young children in a case that would spark intense debate about mental illness, motherhood, and criminal responsibility.
In Part 1 of the Lindsay Clancy case, Christie steps into the jury box as the prosecution and defense present two dramatically different explanations for an unimaginable tragedy. Was this a calculated act, or the result of a devastating mental health crisis?
Through the testimony of Lindsay's husband, Patrick Clancy, Christie and Maryn examine the warning signs, psychiatric treatment, conflicting accounts of Lindsay's behavior, and the heartbreaking events of January 24, 2023.
As the evidence begins to unfold, one question remains: When does mental illness affect criminal responsibility, and how can a jury determine the difference?
Join Christie and Maryn as they begin exploring one of the most emotionally challenging cases they've covered.
Content Warning: This episode discusses the deaths of children, suicide, and mental health struggles.
Hung in the Balance — Two perspectives. One case. Beyond the verdict.
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6 Oct 2026
8.9 Staircase to Nowhere, Foul Play (Michael Peterson - Ep 9)
It’s the conclusion of our nine-week deep dive into the Michael Peterson case.
With the blood spatter expert’s credibility in ruins and a new trial ordered, the state faces major hurdles: lost evidence, overturned rulings, and a murder weapon theory that no longer holds up.
Maryn walks Christie through the legal roller coaster that followed Peterson’s conviction, including constitutional challenges, Alford plea negotiations, and the growing question of whether the state could even successfully retry the case.
Then they turn to the theories suggesting Peterson may not have been the killer at all — including one you probably won’t see coming.
Tune in as Maryn and Christie weigh the evidence, reconsider the alternatives, and finally reveal where they land on the case that has consumed the past two months.
Content Warning: This episode discusses murder, graphic descriptions of injuries and blood spatter, death, and the legal process surrounding a violent crime. It also includes references to pornography, extramarital affairs, and escort services. The upcoming case teased at the end of the episode involves the deaths of children and a suicide attempt. Listener discretion is advised.
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29 Sept 2026
8.8 Behind the Staircase (Michael Peterson - Ep.8)
In this eighth installment of their deep dive into the Michael Peterson trial, the roles finally flip. Christie has spent seven episodes examining the case strictly through the eyes of a juror — weighing only what the jury saw and heard. Now it's Maryn's turn to pull back the curtain on everything that happened outside the courtroom, before, during, and after the trial.
Maryn walks Christie through a string of strange and surprising details that never came up at trial — revelations from books written by both a journalist and Peterson himself, an unlikely prison romance, and a family secret or two that complicate the narrative in unexpected ways. The conversation then turns to the forensic backbone of the prosecution's case — the blood spatter analysis — and the stunning post-trial revelations about the state's key expert that would eventually call the entire conviction into question.
It's an episode full of "wait, what?" moments, and Christie — who has held firm on her own verdict from the trial episodes — finds herself forced to keep an open mind as the ground keeps shifting beneath the case she thought she understood.
Content Warning: This episode discusses murder, violent death, and detailed forensic evidence including blood and blunt force trauma. We also discuss suicide (a passenger going overboard on a cruise ship), prison violence, a separate murder victim found in a trash bin, and explosive devices. The conversation includes mention of death row and execution. If any of these topics are difficult for you, please take care while listening.
Production Credit: Produced and edited by Big Mic Creations. Learn more at bigmiccreations.com.
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