Netflix’s upcoming YA drama Crew Girl is rowing straight into romance, rivalry, and plenty of emotional turbulence, with a central love triangle already poised to spark debate among viewers. Stars Sam Braun and Kyle Clark, who play Josh Regis and Cam Dillinger, respectively, even have a playful suggestion for deciding which character deserves to win over fans.

Premiering on Netflix on Sept. 10, the new series follows 16-year-old rower Teagan Tao, played by Miku Martineau, as her life is upended by a family scandal. The fallout forces Teagan and her mother, portrayed by Jessica Paré, to leave California and return to Eagle’s Cove, the small Northeastern hometown her mother once left behind. Once there, Teagan faces another blow: her new school does not have a women’s crew team.

Determined to stay on the water, Teagan earns a spot on the men’s team as its coxswain, a move that quickly pulls her into complicated dynamics both on and off the boat. According to Netflix’s synopsis, her attention is split between Josh, Braun’s “arrogant team captain,” and Cam, Clark’s “quiet but intensely driven townie.” The Crew Girl trailer makes it clear that Teagan shares charged chemistry with both teammates, setting up the inevitable question of which connection will ultimately come out ahead.

Speaking with DECIDER about the fan reactions likely to follow, Braun and Clark acknowledged that the show’s romantic tension could divide audiences into Team Josh and Team Cam. And when it comes to settling the coming ship wars, the actors already have at least one lighthearted solution in mind.

“Man, I feel like it’s gonna have to get, like, settled with like an arm wrestle or something. So I gotta get to the gym,” Braun joked.

Clark quipped, ” I do too now. I didn’t know you were looking at it that way. Alright, I gotta go work out! I need to do that.”

Nonetheless, Clark also admitted that he’s “not” ready for the fandom that could emerge from the new YA drama.

“I have no idea the storm that may or may not ensue, I guess though,” he shared.

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Martineau, who was sitting between the two actors while chatting with DECIDER, recalled that the cast had arm wrestled on set, prompting Clark to tease that he thought he and Braun had “arm wrestled before.”

Braun asked, “Have we?”

Martineau chimed in, “So who won?”

After neither Braun nor Clark could remember who the alleged winner was, Martineau proposed that they’ll “livestream the next one.”

Clark added, “We’ll livestream the official one, and then the fans can decide.”

Crew Girl hits Netflix on Sept. 10.

A West Virginia high school principal was placed on immediate suspension Wednesday after authorities reportedly uncovered recording devices inside several locker room areas on campus.

The case centers on Eric James, 53, the principal of Brooke High School in Wellsburg, who is now the subject of a criminal investigation.

Investigators said four devices were located in female physical education locker rooms, including a separate locker room space and a dressing area used by the school’s dance team, according to WTOV 9.

“Yesterday, after students were released, Brooke County Schools was informed of a criminal investigation into allegations that a recording device was placed in a locker room at Brooke High School,” the district said in a Thursday memo, according to Lede News.

The devices were removed from campus with the help of school security officers, staff and law enforcement, according to reports.

Additional devices were reportedly confiscated at James’ home, officials said.

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James is being held at the Northern Regional Jail in Marshall County, West Virginia, on $100,000 bond, according to the state Magistrate Database and the West Virginia Regional Jail Authority.

He was charged Thursday with two felony counts, including one count of intentionally intercepting or attempting to intercept wire, oral or electronic communications and one count of breaking and entering a nonresidence.

The school system said it “will be meeting with students, parents, and staff to offer supportive measures while the investigations continue,” according to Lede News.

“The safety, security, and privacy of our students are fundamental responsibilities of our school system. Conduct that compromises those responsibilities will not be tolerated. The school system is cooperating fully with law enforcement and is also conducting its own investigations into the matter,” the school said.

Lindsay Clancy’s ex-husband has broken his silence after the case against her ended in a mistrial.

Patrick Clancy released a statement through his attorney, thanking those who took part in the trial process.

Lindsay had been facing charges in connection with the deaths of the couple’s three children: Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan, before the proceedings collapsed earlier today.

‘Patrick Clancy is grateful to the Court and to the jurors for their hard work, their commitment, and their perseverance,’ his lawyer David Meier said.

‘The loss of Patrick’s children is something from which he will never recover and from which there will never be closure.’

‘The prospect of reliving this tragedy through another trial is extraordinarily painful for Patrick, for his family, and for all us.’

It comes two days after Patrick was seen stepping out with his new wife Rachel Danis in New York City while the jury remained locked in tense deliberations.

The Daily Mail previously revealed that Patrick has relocated to a Midtown Manhattan high-rise with his new wife, who is a fertility specialist and doctor. 

Public records show Patrick relocated from suburban Massachusetts to Manhattan in May 2023, four months after the deaths of his children.

During the trial, Patrick was forced to revisit the tragedy that struck his family’s home in the affluent Boston suburb of Duxbury on January 24, 2023, when his former wife strangled their three children using exercise bands. 

Judge William Sullivan announced a mistrial at a court in Plymouth, Massachusetts, shortly before 2.30pm ET Friday after an emergency appeal by Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, failed.

A mistrial means the prosecution will have the opportunity to try Clancy again. The trial will have to start over from jury selection.

The jury deliberated for almost 40 hours after hearing five weeks of evidence, but one juror was not convinced that Clancy should be acquitted. 

A second trial would not violate Clancy’s Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy, which protects citizens from being punished twice for the same crime.

The Constitution of the United States prevents the government from trying a person again for the same crime after they have already been found innocent or guilty.

But because Clancy’s first trial has resulted in a deadlock, the prosecution is allowed to charge her a second time. It is unclear whether the prosecution will move forward with a second trial.

Clancy is likely going to be kept institutionalized in the interim while a decision is made.

She admits killing her children and attempting to take her own life in 2023 but says she did so while overmedicated and suffering from postpartum psychosis.

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A hearing to decide what to do next will take place September 29. District Attorney Tim Cruz maintained Clancy’s killing of her children was cold-blooded murder, but he refused to be drawn into whether he would push for a retrial and said the decision was yet to be made.

Prosecutors now face several options, including retrying Clancy on reduced charges or seeking a verdict decided by a judge rather than jurors.

The jury of nine women and three men sent four notes to the judge this week saying they had been unable to reach a verdict. 

It emerged on Thursday that 11 of the 12 jurors had reached the same verdict, but a twelfth holdout refused to follow them.

Reddington filed an appeal claiming this unidentified juror was biased towards people with mental disabilities.

The final note sent by jurors on Friday morning read: ‘It is with a heavy heart that we are unable to come to a unanimous decision and will not be able to.’

Friday’s Hail Mary motion was put before Associate Justice Dalila Argaez Wendlandt around 2pm ET. The brief hearing took place over Zoom, with Wendlandt issuing her ruling rejecting the appeal shortly afterward.

A few moments before the mistrial was declared, Reddington suggested to Judge Sullivan that he still had the power to send the jury back out to deliberate again, one final time.

During the sensational five weeks of testimony, prosecutors argued the killings were intentional and well planned, not the work of someone who had lost control.

The mistrial was declared hours after tensions between Reddington and Judge Sullivan boiled over. That came after Reddington accused Sullivan of giving a ‘soft’ instruction to jurors about how to interpret the concept of reasonable doubt.

Before the court adjourned, Reddington spoke to the judge and demanded that ‘one juror’ who is ‘refusing to listen to the law’ be removed from the panel. The prosecutors argued against this, and the judge did not make a ruling. 

Both Patrick and Clancy have filed separate lawsuits against several of her medical providers, alleging that they overmedicated Clancy while treating her for postpartum mental health issues. 

Patrick has publicly supported his ex-wife from the start and urged the public to ‘find it deep within yourselves to forgive Lindsay, as I have.’

He previously told The New Yorker: ‘I wasn’t married to a monster – I was married to someone who got sick.’

Patrick spent six hours testifying as a prosecution witness during the trial. He told jurors that Lindsay had been a ‘loving mother’ before she was derailed by a months-long battle with postpartum depression, suicidal ideation and sleep deprivation.

Doctors did not warn him about postpartum psychosis or that he should not leave Lindsay alone with the children, he told the court.

While giving evidence, he wore the wedding ring from his new marriage to Dr Danis. 

Observers noted that Patrick and Lindsay barely made eye contact with each other in court – which is understood to be the first time they saw each other since the tragedy.

A man has died at the Burning Man festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, event organizers confirmed.

He was transported to the event’s emergency care center, where he was later pronounced dead.

The participant, described only as a man in his mid-50s, experienced a medical emergency on Thursday and was given lifesaving treatment, according to a notice from the Burning Man Project.

“Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with the participant’s family, friends, and those affected by this loss,” organizers said, noting that his name would not be released until relatives had been notified.

The fatality occurred as rain forced officials to close the festival’s main entrance and exit gate in the Black Rock Desert.

Organizers told anyone planning to attend the festival to delay their travel, and for those already at the event to avoid driving their vehicles.

PLYMOUTH, Mass. — The high-profile Lindsay Clancy murder trial ended without a verdict Friday after a Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial, with jurors saying they were unable to agree unanimously on whether the mother of three was legally responsible for killing her young children.

Watch a special edition of “20/20,” “The Trial of Lindsay Clancy,” airing Thursday, Sept. 4, at 9/8c on ABC, streaming the next day on Disney+ and Hulu.

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A Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial Friday in the murder case against Lindsay Clancy after jurors reported they could not reach a unanimous decision in the deaths of her three young children. The panel had spent a week deliberating at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth before Judge William Sullivan ended the trial.

The decision came after a tense courtroom battle over what the defense described as an 11-1 split among jurors. Clancy’s attorneys argued that the lone dissenting juror had expressed uncertainty but was not properly following the judge’s instructions on the legal standard of reasonable doubt.

The holdout juror is believed to be one of the three men on the 12-member jury. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington repeatedly referred to the unidentified juror as male both in court and while speaking publicly outside the courthouse.

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Reddington sharply criticized the outcome after leaving court, telling reporters, “[The other jurors] know that they were robbed — by one man — for whatever his agenda was, who stole seven weeks of the life of these other jurors that were so attentive, so beautiful, so wonderful and listened to this evidence.”

“And you could see how defeated they were sitting there. And I got a funny feeling they could go one for another week if they had to. So, I hope that guy can sleep well at night.” 

Also speaking outside the courthouse, Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz acknowledged the victims in this case — the Clancy children: 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan. 

“It is our job to make sure the victims are not invisible,” Cruz said. “I am a father and a grandfather, and I cannot imagine the hell this entire family has lived through.”

Clancy’s attorneys made an emergency appeal to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in an attempt to stay the mistrial and force further inquiry into the juror. Justice Dalila Argaez Wendlandt denied the request Friday afternoon, clearing the way for Sullivan to formally declare the mistrial.

Clancy had been charged with first-degree murder in the January 2023 deaths of her children, each of whom had been strangled with exercise bands.

The trial centered on whether she was legally responsible for her actions at the time, and the defense argued she wasn’t due to postpartum psychosis.

Her attorneys argued that severe mental illness left her unable to appreciate the wrongfulness of what she was doing or unable to conform her conduct to the requirements of the law.

Prosecutors maintained that Clancy remained criminally responsible and pointed to evidence they said showed planning, purposeful behavior and an awareness of what she was doing before, during and after the killings.

During the trial, Clancy’s former husband, Patrick Clancy, testified about the day of the slayings, which happened while he was running errands that included picking up children’s stool softener at a CVS store and takeout for dinner. They spoke on the phone while he was out.

Under Massachusetts law, once lack of criminal responsibility is properly raised, prosecutors must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant was criminally responsible.

The mistrial means the case ended without a verdict, and Clancy was neither convicted nor acquitted. Prosecutors can seek to retry her but have not yet announced a decision.

Sullivan said he wants the case retried “sooner rather than later,” suggesting a new trial could potentially take place later this fall. Clancy is due back in court Sept. 29 for a status hearing, trial assignment and a defense Rule 25 motion.

All previous bail orders remain in effect.

The mistrial followed a trial that focused extensively on Clancy’s psychiatric condition in the months and weeks before the children died.

Jurors heard testimony about her treatment by mental health professionals, psychiatric medications, anxiety, depression, insomnia and other symptoms documented before the killings.

On Jan. 24, 2023, authorities responded to the Clancy family’s Duxbury home after Patrick Clancy returned and found his wife seriously injured outside the house.

The couple’s three children were found inside.

Cora and Dawson died that night. Callan was taken to a hospital and died several days later.

Lindsay Clancy survived after jumping from a second-story window and suffered injuries that left her paralyzed in a wheelchair.

The prosecution and defense offered sharply different explanations for what happened before the children were killed.

The defense had argued that the deaths occurred after months of worsening psychiatric symptoms and treatment and that Clancy’s mental condition had deteriorated to the point she could not legally be held criminally responsible.

Specifically, the defense contended that Clancy heard a male voice that commanded her to kill her three children. Dr. Phillip Resnick, a forensic psychiatrist, said it was almost as if she was a “puppet.”

“Not only did she hear a command, but she felt that her body was taken over by an external force where she was in a dream state and did not have control of her own body. It was almost like she was a puppet, and someone else was pulling the strings,” Resnick said.

However, prosecutors rejected that claim, and their experts argued Clancy deliberately created an opportunity to be alone with the children and intentionally killed them.

Gregory Saathoff, a forensic psychiatrist at the University of Virginia who consults the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, told jurors Clancy’s self-described auditory hallucinations were “very unusual.”

“What was significant to me is that she had not spoken about hearing voices before to any of the mental health professionals, psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, physicians and staff in the emergency department or at McLean,” Saathoff said.

“This was the first time she reported that, and that she experienced an auditory hallucination, according to what she told me. So, that was unusual. And then what was very unusual was the fact that the voice stopped with the strangling of her youngest son.”

During the trial, members of Clancy’s family revealed they were “very concerned” about her mental health in the months before she killed her three kids.

Susan Clancy, Lindsay’s mother-in-law, told jurors she was concerned about Lindsay’s mental health during the holiday season in 2022 but said she was a caring mother.

“Lindsay was struggling. We were all very concerned,” Susan Clancy said. “She was very nurturing, very loving. She was a wonderful mother. Wonderful.

“She was begging for help.”

Paula Musgrove, Lindsay Clancy’s mother, also told jurors about the mental health problems. In an Oct. 20, 2022 text message, Lindsay Clancy asked her mother for help.

“Mom, will you please come up and stay with me for a bit? I’m really sick. Something is wrong. I had horrible insomnia all night, and I just don’t know how I am going to get through the day. … It’s just really scary, and I don’t want to be alone,” the text read.

Each night after work, from her home in the Midwest, she would go online to follow the latest developments.

More than 1,000 miles away in Massachusetts, a trial was unfolding involving a young mother accused of killing her three children. Her attorney argued that the tragedy was rooted in her worsening mental health, repeated pleas for help that went unanswered, and breakdowns within the medical system.

Her own life bore little resemblance to the woman at the center of the case — she is a business executive in her 40s and has no children — but she acknowledged being deeply drawn to the story.

Moved by what she saw as the mother’s suffering, she contributed several thousand dollars to a GoFundMe campaign created to support the family.

‘I was just trying to do something nice, and I have no regrets,’ she told the Daily Mail. ‘But it definitely took a turn.’

Today this donor is speaking on condition of anonymity and for good reason. Within hours of making her donation strangers began requesting money from her on Venmo and on her social media. And they attacked her generosity: ‘They would say things like, why are you helping a baby killer?’

The question hangs over the Lindsay Clancy case.

And it overshadows the outpouring of support for her.

Clancy, a 36-year-old nurse, has admitted to strangling her three children in January 2023 – five-year-old Cora; Dawson, aged three; and eight-month-old Callan.

A jury was tasked with debating whether she murdered the three, or was not guilty by reason of postpartum psychosis.

But more than 30,000 people had already made up their minds and put their money where their mouths are: donating to the GoFundMe set up to support her family. In a little over two weeks the campaign has raised more than $1.05 million, with the funds going to Lindsay’s parents – Michael Musgrove, 70, recently retired from his sales job at a student portrait company, and his wife Paula, 73, who worked for Weight Watchers before her retirement.

The generosity is remarkable, but it has also raised questions. What will the cash be used for?

A GoFundMe created by the brother of George Floyd, murdered by police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, in May 2020, raised a record-breaking $13 million. Some of the cash has been distributed to community funds, and some will be bequeathed to his young daughter.

Who are the people behind the Lindsay Clancy parental campaign? And why are strangers from around the world opening their wallets for the parents of a child killer?

Perhaps most surprising is that the woman who launched the GoFundMe, declaring daily her passionate support for the Musgroves, has never actually met them.

‘I don’t know them,’ said Brandee Mulligan, a 42-year-old mother of three from the Wisconsin town of Oconomowoc, 30 miles west of Milwaukee.

‘I just was one of the millions of people watching the case, and I was like, what can we do? And so, I put it together and the response has been overwhelming. There’s so many people that want to support it and it’s been incredible.’

Mulligan told the Daily Mail that she initially wanted to help pay for the lawyer directly but learnt that since 2021 GoFundMe’s terms have prohibited ‘the legal defense of financial and violent crimes, including those related to money laundering, murder, robbery, assault, battery, sex crimes or crimes against minors.’

GoFundMe has taken down fundraisers set up for Luigi Mangione, who pled guilty to interstate stalking leading to death in the December 2024 shooting of healthcare executive Brian Thompson and Karmelo Anthony, the Texas teenager found guilty of stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf to death during an April 2025 high school track meet in Frisco.

They also removed fundraisers for Kyle Rittenhouse, accused but ultimately acquitted of killing two Black Lives Matter protesters and wounding a third in Kenosha in 2020, and Daniel Penny, also acquitted of killing a restive homeless man on a New York City subway in 2023.

Supporters of Mangione, Anthony, Rittenhouse and others circumvented the rules by turning to GiveSendGo – an alternative platform, which allows donations up until the point an accused person is convicted.

So Mulligan, instead of paying for Clancy’s legal fees, decided to help the Musgroves with their expenses – whatever they may be.

‘I’m an impulsive person and I use TikTok and I’m like, here’s my idea, OK, I’ll just do it,’ she said. ‘I don’t have any contact with them. I did it without even asking permission and it was just kind of an, “Oh my God, I hope this works out,” kind of thing.’

Clancy is represented by Kevin Reddington, a well-known criminal defense attorney who has worked on over 100 murder cases, famously representing the girlfriend of mobster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger.

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The 75-year-old, known for his passion for martial arts, usually commands $550 an hour and in 2002 was named the state’s best criminal defense attorney by Boston Magazine.

He has won praise from Clancy’s supporters for his compassionate gestures – rubbing her shoulders or holding her hand at times of tension and wearing a pink tie in a show of support.

Mulligan began commenting on the case on August 6 – opening statements were on July 27 – and by August 7 she was telling her 115,000 followers on TikTok: ‘We’re setting up a GoFundMe for Lindsay Clancy’s attorney, right? Like, that’s what’s happening. So, tell me what to do, or someone else needs to set it up. This needs to be done.’

On August 11 she announced: ‘All right, I did it. I set up a GoFundMe – it’s linked and it’s all listed, and I’m not accessing any of the money – and they are fully aware that I am not able to reach any of the family to do this. So, I’m not doing it on their behalf. Once we make contact, they are going to be the beneficiaries, and it goes to them – everything goes to them. It’s for Lindsay Clancy’s parents and they use it however they need to use it.’

On August 15, when $400,000 had been added in the previous 24 hours, Mulligan said: ‘Mike Musgrove reached out to me this morning to extend their heartfelt appreciation to everyone that is a part of this. And trust me when I say they mean it.’

Two days later, on August 17, Paula Musgrove took the stand in her daughter’s defense and talked the jury through the toll the case has taken on their family.

Immediately after the killings, the Musgroves relocated 150 miles from their Wallingford, Connecticut home to their daughter’s coastal hometown of Duxbury, Massachusetts.

Paula testified that they had been staying in a series of hotels.

The Musgroves were not wealthy before the tragedy – they bought the three-bedroom home where they raised Lindsay and her social worker sister Allison, 38, for $172,000 in 1996.

‘They’re good people – good, hard-working, regular, middle-class people,’ said John Roarke, their neighbor and a retired New Haven firefighter, speaking to CT Insider earlier this month. ‘They took good care of their kids.’

Lindsay’s ex-husband Patrick sold their marital home in Duxbury 12 months after the tragedy, with the property selling for $675,000.

A month after the sale was finalized, Patrick filed for divorce. It is not known how the proceeds of the house were divided.

He now lives in New York City and has remarried.

A relative of Patrick’s launched a GoFundMe in the immediate aftermath of the children’s death, to support Patrick with ‘medical bills, funeral services and legal help.’ The effort raised $1.08 million.

He has since launched The Heard Foundation, dedicated ‘to reimagine perinatal mental-health care, to build a dedicated treatment center where parents can heal with dignity and support, and to foster a culture of kindness and connection so no one struggles alone.’

The organization is currently working to create Massachusetts’ first dedicated postpartum treatment center, according to the website.

Mulligan and her supporters, however, are focused on helping the Musgrove family.

Lindsay was left paralyzed from the waist down when, having killed her children, she jumped out of a second-story window in an apparent suicide bid. Prosecutors contend that the attempt was staged and her injuries the result of misjudging the hardness of the frozen ground.

Her medical needs have so far been covered by the state, but if she is ever released she will require specialized care and a modified home for her wheelchair.

Under Massachusetts law, detention for psychiatric reasons is reviewed regularly: if found not guilty, she could be freed in a matter of years.

‘Her parents have had literally their whole lives uprooted,’ said Mulligan. ‘The support is to Paula and Mike, but in some ways it’s because they’re supporting Lindsay.’

The midwestern donor who spoke with the Daily Mail said she doesn’t mind what the money is spent on, and trusts it will be used wisely, for whatever need is most pressing.

‘I feel in no way that those funds will be mismanaged,’ she said. ‘I’m happy to help in any way.’

Not everyone is so trusting, or so inclined to help. For some, however sincere Mulligan’s intentions, it is simply impossible to square the fact that the accumulation of a fortune should follow on from the death of three little children.