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Wendy Murphy

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
4
Latest publication
Sep 15, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Boston Herald
Top 100K sites
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Aug 22, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Wendy Murphy

    Wendy Murphy: Clancy case reveals hidden money in action (opens the original)

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    Now that the holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy case is getting the negative attention he deserves, it’s easy for District Attorney Tim Cruz to agree to a plea deal that gets Lindsay the help she needs. Between now and when the deal goes through, we need to talk about how and why social media caused so much needless distress in this case. The jurors voted 11-1 for insanity. This indicates that public opinion breaks down along similar lines. So why does social media make it seem like the public

  2. Article · Aug 28, 2026 · Wendy Murphy

    Wendy Murphy: Watching your fiancé bleed to death … (opens the original)

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    When Marian Ryan was a young prosecutor in Middlesex County, she watched her fiancé bleed to death when a gun-toting thug opened fire, grazing her face with a bullet before it landed in her fiancé’s chest. Everyone around her said “you have to leave the prosecutor’s office — it’s too dangerous.” But she didn’t leave. Instead, she used the experience to guide her thinking about what it means to be a prosecutor, and 45 years later she’s still on the job, now serving as the elected district attorne

  3. Article · Aug 26, 2026 · Wendy Murphy

    Wendy Murphy: What is justice in a case like this? (opens the original)

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    Regardless of the verdict, Lindsay Clancy’s life is over. Unless someone comes up with new evidence proving that she hated her children, she is on a fast train to existential hell whether the jury says guilty, not guilty, or not guilty by reason of insanity. Whatever the result, people will complain that justice was not done. But what is justice in a case like this? What would little Cora, Dawson, and Callan say about justice if they had survived and looked back in time 20 years from now? Would

  4. Article · Aug 22, 2026 · Wendy Murphy

    Murphy: One town’s struggle with child pornography (opens the original)

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    A long-time middle school teacher in Belmont named Leon Dyer was arrested recently and charged with possession of child pornography. It was not the first time something like this happened in Belmont. Jeremy Evans, also a Belmont middle school teacher, was arrested in 2024 after he was allegedly seen masturbating in federal court, multiple times, during a child sex trafficking trial. He wasn’t the one on trial. He was just sitting in the audience. Charges were later dropped on a paperwork technic

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