Nick Reiner and Lindsay Clancy keep getting placed in the same mental-health argument, but the records behind these two cases point in very different directions. Reiner has pleaded not guilty to two murder counts in the deaths of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, and prosecutors have added a special-circumstance allegation that he committed the killings by lying in wait. Reiner publicly described years of addiction, repeated treatment, relapse, and periods of homelessness long before the criminal case. In a 2018 podcast appearance, he described wrecking his parents' guest house during a drug binge. The new indictment does not prove why the killings happened, and Reiner is presumed innocent, but it gives prosecutors a theory built around deliberate waiting before the attack. Lindsay Clancy's trial presented a different legal fight. Her defense argued postpartum psychosis left her without criminal responsibility when her three children died in January 2023. Prosecutors argued she understood what she was doing and acted deliberately. The trial ended September 4 in a mistrial, and posttrial juror accounts described an 11-1 split favoring a finding of not guilty by reason of insanity. That difference has spilled into social media. One TikTok creator claimed he canceled a $200,000 wedding after an argument over the Clancy case and called his fiancee a monster for her position. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of Nightbird, joins Tony Brueski to examine why these cases become character tests for the people discussing them, and why addiction, psychosis, choice, and criminal responsibility cannot be treated as interchangeable labels. Nick Reiner is due back in court September 15. Lindsay Clancy's case remains unresolved after the mistrial. The comparison between them says as much about how the public talks about mental illness as it does about either defendant. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #NickReiner #LindsayClancy #HiddenKillers #ShavaunScott #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #PostpartumPsychosis #MentalHealth #TrueCrime #CriminalResponsibility