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Commonwealth v. Clancy, August 13, 2026
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Digital forensics: three State Police witnesses on device extractions and the scene.
Key points
- 23 Aug 2022: visit to a site about suicide methods, five months before the killings and predating the first psychiatrist search in the treatment chronology.
- 5 Dec 2022: search about a psychiatrist over-prescribing, bears directly on the over-medication theory.
- 20 Jan 2023, 8:28pm: search asking whether a sociopath can be treated.
- No searches for 'ways to kill' were recovered; the examined laptop was Patrick's.
- TIMELINE CONFLICT: Chiappini's reported times differ from the Whiffin figures in the case reference. MiraLAX 4:46pm here vs 14:02; 3V 4:43pm vs 16:13; the 14-second call 5:35pm vs 17:34. Two forensic witnesses, two extractions, do not treat either as settled.
- POSSIBLE RESOLUTION: 'Kyle Carney', listed as unidentified in the reference, may be a garbling of Sgt. Kyle Pavao.
Witnesses (3)
Kyle PavaoCommonwealth
Sergeant, MSP; Cellebrite-certified examiner
Cross: Reddington
- Computer extractions, including a laptop belonging to Patrick Clancy.
- August 23, 2022: a visit to a website about suicide methods.
- December 5, 2022: a search about what to do when a psychiatrist over-prescribes.
- No searches for ways to kill were recovered.
Timothy ChiappiniCommonwealth
Detective, MSP
Cross: Reddington
- Phone extraction: searches, messages and photo access.
- October 25, 2022: a note that she was sad and depressed and could not parent her third child as she had her first.
- January 20, 2023, 20:28: a search asking whether a sociopath can be treated.
- January 23, 2023 evening: photographs accessed and modified.
- January 24, 16:43: 3V restaurant menu search.
- January 24, 16:46: search for children's MiraLAX.
- January 24, 17:33: unanswered call from Patrick's phone.
- January 24, 17:35: a fourteen-second call from the defendant to Patrick.
- Last computer search that morning at 09:48.
Joshua McKelliganCommonwealth
Trooper, MSP; case officer
- First notified at 18:45 on January 24.
- Reached the scene between 3 and 4am.
- Described the second-floor bedroom.
- Red-brown staining on the window ledge and rear shingles.
Exhibits and evidence
- Crime-scene video of the second-floor bedroom
- Surveillance video: the family at the Museum of Science, weeks earlier
- Phone records from 16:53 onward on January 24
Procedural
- 11:17Mid-morning break.
- 13:01Lunch; jury returned 14:00.
- 14:36Jury dismissed until Monday.