Dr. Phil McGraw takes an in-depth look at true crime cases, mysteries and provides his in-depth analysis.
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The Lindsay Clancy murder trial is nearing its defining moment. The central question for jurors: Was she criminally responsible when she killed her three children? The defense says postpartum psychosis left Clancy delusional and unable to understand the wrongfulness of her actions. Prosecutors argue she was mentally ill but not psychotic, knew what she was doing and understood it was wrong. In…
Lindsay Clancy admits she killed her three young children. What the jury must decide is whether she was legally responsible for their deaths. Prosecutors say Clancy deliberately sent her husband out of the house before strangling 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan, arguing her actions show planning, awareness and an understanding that what she was doing was wrong.The defense…
Pamela Smart’s fate came down to a question that still hangs over the case: Who should the jury believe? In Part 2 of Pamela Smart: Should She Get A New Trial? Mystery & Murder: Analysis by Dr. Phil , Dr. Phil examines the testimony that helped convict Smart of conspiring to murder her husband, Gregg Smart. Billy Flynn and the other teenage participants testified against Pamela after receiving…
Pamela Smart became infamous after prosecutors said she manipulated her 15-year-old lover, Billy Flynn, into murdering her husband, Gregg Smart. The case became the first murder trial in U.S. history televised gavel-to-gavel and turned Smart into one of America’s most notorious convicted killers. In Part 1 of Pamela Smart: Should She Get A New Trial?, Mystery & Murder: Analysis by Dr. Phil, Dr.…
The Jodi Arias trial had become a national spectacle, but the case still came down to one question: was she finally telling the truth—or delivering her most convincing performance yet? In Episode 3 of Fatal Attraction: The Story of Jodi Arias , Dr. Phil examines the extraordinary decision to put Jodi on the stand for 18 days, giving prosecutors repeated opportunities to challenge her shifting…
Jodi Arias no longer denied killing Travis Alexander. Her defense now rested on a far more complicated claim: she acted in self-defense, then entered a trauma-induced “fog” that erased her memory of stabbing him dozens of times, slashing his throat and attempting to conceal the crime. In Episode 2 of Fatal Attraction: The Story of Jodi Arias , Mystery and Murder: Analysis by Dr. Phil, Dr. Phil…
The murder of Travis Alexander became a true-crime phenomenon, a brutal killing, a televised trial and a defendant whose story changed every time the evidence closed in. In episode one of Fatal Attraction: The Story of Jodi Arias, Mystery and Murder: Analysis by Dr. Phil , Dr. Phil examines the fatal relationship between Travis Alexander, a charismatic motivational speaker devoted to his Mormon…
Rex Heuermann has been sentenced to life in prison without parole after admitting to the murders of eight women in the case known as the Gilgo Beach serial killings. In the quiet dunes along Long Island’s Ocean Parkway, four missing women are discovered buried just feet from a road thousands drive every day. Mystery and Murder: Analysis by Dr. Phil revisits the Gilgo Beach case through the…
In Part 3 of The Boy Who Never Came Home: The Case of Dylan Redwine , Dr. Phil examines how a missing-child investigation became a murder prosecution and why investigators ultimately focused on Dylan’s father, Mark Redwine. After Dylan vanished during a court-ordered visit, investigators found blood evidence inside Mark’s home, including on furniture, flooring, and beneath a rug. Cadaver dogs…
In Part 2 of The Boy Who Never Came Home: The Case of Dylan Redwine , Dr. Phil revisits one of the most revealing moments in the investigation: his confrontation with Dylan’s father, Mark Redwine, while Dylan was still missing. Dylan vanished after a court-ordered Thanksgiving visit with his father in Colorado. As search teams combed the rugged wilderness near Mark’s home, Dr. Phil sat down with…
In Part 1 of The Boy Who Never Came Home: The Case of Dylan Redwine, Dr. Phil revisits the haunting disappearance of 13-year-old Dylan Redwine, who flew to Colorado for a court-ordered Thanksgiving visit with his father, Mark Redwine, and vanished by the next morning. Dr. Phil breaks down the family conflict, the custody battle, Dylan’s reported discomfort about visiting his dad, and the emotional…
Part 3: In this episode of Mystery and Murder: Analysis by Dr. Phil , the heartbreaking truth about Brittanee Drexel’s disappearance finally comes to light. After years of false leads, jailhouse rumors, and suspicion cast on innocent people, investigators returned to the beginning — Brittanee’s final walk alone after leaving the Bluewater Resort in Myrtle Beach. Dr. Phil examines how the case was…