Shawna Gramkow charged with wiretapping Christopher Clancy
The Florida woman maintains a large online following and continues to dispute the Scituate police report.
By Marco Kapoor ·
Scituate police have charged a Florida woman with illegally recording the father of Patrick Clancy.
Shawna Gramkow, 46, faces a wiretapping count for taping Christopher Clancy. She is scheduled to appear in a Massachusetts court in November. The charge stems from an audio clip that police say features the elder Clancy speaking about his son, Brian.
Gramkow has not stopped posting since the accusation became public. She maintains active accounts on Instagram and Facebook, with roughly 56,000 and 51,000 followers, respectively. Her content frequently covers the Lindsay Clancy trial and related events. In some posts, she asserts that Patrick Clancy was responsible for the deaths of his children, a claim police and prosecutors have not supported.
In an Instagram post dated Oct. 28, Gramkow called the allegations false and said they were easy to prove. She wrote, "And yes I got all the 'Dirty Deets' ;)." On Sunday, she shared a video with the caption, "They wanted to silence me, instead .. My voice just got amplified 10 fold." She also shared links to a CashApp and a GoFundMe page. The fundraiser has raised $23,185 toward a $28,000 goal as of Sunday night.
The incident began when Christopher Clancy contacted police after seeing an Instagram post by Gramkow. The post claimed someone had extracted his phone number from evidence in the murder trial of his former daughter-in-law, Lindsay Clancy. The included audio, which police described as largely intelligible, sounded like Clancy’s voice to him. He told investigators he was discussing his older son, Brian, during the recording.
Lindsay Clancy, a Wallingford native, is facing three counts of first-degree murder for the Jan. 24, 2023, deaths of her children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. Prosecutors accuse her of strangling the children while Patrick Clancy was away from their Duxbury, Mass., home. The case has generated intense online debate, with many social media users promoting theories of Patrick Clancy's guilt. Clancy’s defense argued she suffered from postpartum psychosis and was not criminally responsible, while the prosecution claimed the deaths were planned and that she was controlling. A first trial ended in a mistrial in early September due to a hung jury. Her attorney, Kevin Reddington, is seeking to have the charges dismissed.
