DEADLY INTENT

Intent doesn't lie. People do.Episode 60. This week: three mothers, three unraveling minds, and the same devastating question — where does love end and delusion begin? To mark 60 episodes, we revisit the cases of Diane Downs, Taylor Parker, and "The Doomsday Mom," three stories that circle the same haunting territory of maternal violence and psychological collapse. Consider this part one — Constance Fisher, a case that started this conversation decades before any of us were born, arrives next Wednesday.Diane Downs — The Mother Who Shot Her Own ChildrenTaylor Parker — Maternal Instinct: Fetal Abduction & the Benton County MurderThe Doomsday Mom — When Love Becomes MurderNew episode every Wednesday. Follow Deadly Intent wherever you listen.#DeadlyIntent #TrueCrimePodcast #CriminalPsychology #MothersWhoKill #PostpartumPsychosis #DianeDowns #TaylorParker #TheDoomsdayMom #TrueCrimeCommunity #CrimePodcast #ForensicPsychology #Episode60 #TrueCrimeYouTube #CriminalMindsExplained #IntentDoesntLieEXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT:Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folkloreCarman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terrorSUPPORT THE SHOW:Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrionCONNECT WITH CARMAN:Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrionYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FreakyFolkloreTwitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQYiTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184Your support helps bring you moreterrifying tales.DISCOVER MORE HORROR:http://eeriecast.com/https://www.carman-carrion.com/MUSIC CREDITS:Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs   

On January 24, 2023, Lindsay Clancy — a labor and delivery nurse and mother of three — strangled her children in the basement of their Duxbury, Massachusetts home,then tried to take her own life. Three and a half years later, her murder trial ended not in a conviction, not in an acquittal, but in a mistrial: eleven jurors on one side, a single holdout on the other, and a country still arguing over whether she's a victim or a killer. This week on Deadly Intent, we go inside the case that split the nation. What is postpartum psychosis, and was Lindsay inside it that night — or was she calculating? We break down the "voice" she says commanded her, the prosecution'sconcealment argument, the Massachusetts insanity standard almost every headline got wrong, and why twelve people couldn't agree. Because on this show, intent doesn't lie. People do. ⚠️ Content warning: This episode discusses the deaths of children, mental illness, and suicide. If you're struggling, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline). For postpartum support, Postpartum Support International: 1-800-944-4773. You're not alone. 🎧 New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe for more true crime psychology and head to Patreon for the bonus case file on this one. #LindsayClancy #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #Mistrial #DeadlyIntent #TrueCrimePodcast #Duxbury #MaternalMentalHealth #CrimePsychology #TrueCrimeCommunity #PostpartumSupport #DeadlockedJury #TrueCrimeYouTube #CarmanCarrionEXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT:Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folkloreCarman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terrorSUPPORT THE SHOW:Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrionCONNECT WITH CARMAN:Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrionYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FreakyFolkloreTwitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQYiTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184Your support helps bring you moreterrifying tales.DISCOVER MORE HORROR:http://eeriecast.com/https://www.carman-carrion.com/MUSIC CREDITS:Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs   

In the ruins of post-war Germany, young men vanished from a Hanover train station for six years — and the man taking them wasn't hiding. He was a police informant, a familiar face, trusted by the very people meant to stop him. Fritz Haarmanncalled it a frenzy he couldn't control. But you don't build a life around a compulsion by accident. This week, we sit inside the hardest question there is: when a killer says he never meant it, do we believe him? For the boys the world had already decided not to look for, intent doesn't lie. People do. Content note: this episode covers crimes against young men and boys, handled without graphic detail. Listener discretion advised. #TrueCrime #DeadlyIntent #CarmanCarrion #FritzHaarmann #ButcherOfHanover #TrueCrimePodcast #SerialKiller #TrueCrimeCommunity #Criminology #Weimar #TrueCrimeHistory#Podcast EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT:Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folkloreCarman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror________________________________________SUPPORT THE SHOW:Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion________________________________________CONNECT WITH CARMAN:Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrionYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FreakyFolkloreTwitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/________________________________________SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW:Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQYiTunes:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales.________________________________________DISCOVER MORE HORROR:http://eeriecast.com/https://www.carman-carrion.com/________________________________________MUSIC CREDITS:Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs

In February 2025, in a quiet corner of west Georgia, a married couple was shot to death in their bed as they slept. There was no forced entry, and the killer took the weapon with them. For five months the case looked like an unsolved tragedy —and the grieving teenage daughter who called 911 became one of its most public mourners, posting tribute after tribute online and begging the internet to care. Then the sheriff’s office named her as the person accused of pulling thetrigger.This week on Deadly Intent, we sit with a case that is still unfolding — and one that could not be more suited to this show, because its entire weight rests on a single unanswered question: what was really happening inside the mind of the girl in those videos? Was that grief, or was it performance? We trace the case in order — from the family behind the door, through the morning everything shattered,into five strange months of public mourning, and on to an arrest, an indictment, and a trial that keeps slipping out of reach.Along the way we hold the hardest tension in true crime: that Sarah Grace Patrick has pleaded not guilty and has never been tried, and that everything the state alleges still has to be proven. We look at what the prosecution believes it canshow, at what the defense says is missing, and at what it means to judge the adult intent of someone who was sixteen years old. And before we close, we bring the story back to the people at its center — Kristin and James Brock — and to the youngest witness of all.This is the story of Sarah Grace Patrick, and of how hard it is to read a human heart through a screen.⚠️ Content warning: This episode discusses the shooting deaths of two parents and a young child’s discovery oftheir bodies. Please take care of yourself while listening.#DeadlyIntent #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #SarahGracePatrick #BrockMurders #CarrollCountyGeorgia#TikTokTrueCrime #CrimePsychology #ForensicPsychology#TrueCrimeCommunity #Murderino #GeorgiaTrueCrime #PsychologyPodcast #TrueCrimeAddict #CourtTV #PresumptionOfInnocence #PodcastRecommendationsEXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT:Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folkloreCarman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror________________________________________SUPPORT THE SHOW:Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion________________________________________CONNECT WITH CARMAN:Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrionYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FreakyFolkloreTwitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/________________________________________SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW:Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQYiTunes:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales.________________________________________DISCOVER MORE HORROR:http://eeriecast.com/https://www.carman-carrion.com/________________________________________MUSIC CREDITS:Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs

It was supposed to be one of the good days. A district track meet in Frisco, Texas. Hundreds of high schoolers. An ordinary spring Wednesday.Then a thunderstorm rolled in, and everyone scrambled for cover under the pop-up tents. Under one of them — a tent belonging to a school he didn't attend — seventeen-year-old Karmelo Anthony took shelter from the rain. Within about aminute, a dispute over who got to stand under that canopy ended with another seventeen-year-old, Austin Metcalf, bleeding to death in the arms of his twin brother.There was no whodunit. Anthony admitted from the very first that he used the knife. The question that consumed a courtroom — and a country — for the next fourteenmonths was something far harder: was this a frightened young man defending himself in a moment of chaos? Or was it murder?In this episode, we leave the national noise at the door and look at what the jury actually heard — the words spoken before anyone touched anyone, the order of events that may have decided everything, and the razor-thin legal line between fear and intent. Then we turn and examine the noise itself, because the way this case got swallowed by the internet is its own kind of psychology worth understanding.Same knife. Same wound. Same dead boy. And the entire spectrum from innocent to murderer turning on a state of mind no camera ever recorded.⚠️ Content warning: This episode discusses the death of a teenager and graphic violence. Please take care whilelistening.🎧 Deadly Intent — because the most important question is almost never what happened. It's why.#DeadlyIntent #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrimeCommunity #CrimePodcast #KarmeloAnthony#AustinMetcalf #FriscoTexas #Justice #Courtroom #TrueCrimeAddict #Podcast #CriminalPsychology #SelfDefense #MurderTrial #TrueCrimeJunkie #CaseFiles#Verdict #TeenViolence #PodcastRecommendations EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT:Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folkloreCarman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror________________________________________SUPPORT THE SHOW:Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion________________________________________CONNECT WITH CARMAN:Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrionYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FreakyFolkloreTwitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/________________________________________SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW:Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQYiTunes:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales.________________________________________DISCOVER MORE HORROR:http://eeriecast.com/https://www.carman-carrion.com/________________________________________MUSIC CREDITS:Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs