DEADLY INTENT

In January 1995, four teenagers signed up for a Job Corps center in Knoxville, Tennessee. Three came back. Nineteen-year-old Colleen Slemmer did not.
The crime became infamous for its brutality, the pentagram, and a piece of evidence that shocked the country. The woman convicted of it, Christa Pike, has spent nearly thirty years on Tennessee's death row, and her execution date this fall madenational headlines.
This week on Deadly Intent, we look past the headlines and into the mind. We follow Christa from a childhood of abuse and a juvenile system that punished her instead ofhelping her, to a Job Corps dormitory where jealousy, a volatile boyfriend, and teenage chaos collided. We ask how the satanic panic rewrote the story, what her jury never heard, and why two people who committed the same crime receivedtwo very different sentences. We also taketime to remember Colleen, who deserves to be known for who she was.
Content warning: This episode discusses murder, torture, child sexual abuse, and suicidal thoughts. Listener discretion is advised. If you need support, call or text 988 (Suicide and Crisis Lifeline) or RAINN at 1-800-656-4673.
Intent doesn't lie. People do.
 
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On the night of June 9, 1912, after a Children's Day program at their church, Josiah and Sarah Moore, their four children, and two young sisters staying over for the night went to sleep in a small house in Villisca, Iowa. By morning, all eight were dead. The murder weapon was Josiah's own axe. Every mirror in the house had been covered, every victim's face hidden under bedclothes, and a slab of raw bacon lay on the floor beside the axe. Before the day was over, hundreds of townspeople had walked through the crime scene.
More than a century later, the case is still unsolved. This week, we go through the suspects one by one.
Content warning: this episode discusses the violent deaths of children and adults, sexual suspicion involving a child victim, false confessions, and mental illness.
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In 1954, a young Maine mother named Constance Fisher drowned her three children in a bathtub, then tried to take her own life. She was found not guilty by reason of insanity, spent five years in a state hospital, and was sent home "cured." Twelve years later, she did it again — three more children,the same method, the same house. This week, in the case that's been resurfacing everywhere since the Lindsay Clancy trial began dominating headlines, we go back to where this conversation actually started: postpartum psychosis, a legalsystem that didn't yet have the language for it, and a mental health system that mistook the absence of hallucinations for a cure. We trace what happened to Constance from her 1954 arrest through her 1966 re-arrest, her second insanity trial, and her death in 1973 — and we connect her case directly toAndrea Yates and Lindsay Clancy to show how much (and how little) has actually changed in seventy years.
 
Content warning: this episode discusses the deaths of children, severe mental illness, and suicide in detail.
 
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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 Children
Taylor Parker — Maternal Instinct: Fetal Abduction & the Benton County Murder
The Doomsday Mom — When Love Becomes Murder

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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.
 
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