Wrong Woman Jailed 13 Days For Triple Fatal Crash

On October 4th, 2025 on I -4 near mile marker 108 in Volusia County, Florida, a Dodge Durango allegedly made an unsafe lane change, triggering a violent chain reaction crash involving motorcycles and multiple vehicles.Three people were killed.The Dodge Durango then fled the scene, leading to a massive manhunt.

State troopers are scouring the area looking for a person who drove off from a crash that killed three people.

Troopers say the driver of the Dodge Durango changed lanes into a Ford Focus and caus with a motorcycle.The i crash caused the first tw into the guardrail.The F back into the eastbound pilot.The driver of the scene and the Ford Focus woman was taken to the ho was demanding justice.

Af law enforcement finally m 23 -year -old Lindsay Isaacs with multiple felonies, including vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a fatal crash.

23 -year -old Lindsay Isaacs of Ocala was arrested yesterday in connection with that crash.She is facing three charges of vehicular homicide and leaving the scene.

Lindsay drove a black Dodge Durango and flock camera technology showed her driving on I -4 that night near where the crash occurred.Also, investigators said that they found damage on her Durango consistent with being in the crash.So they threw her in jail where she was denied bond and even placed in solitary confinement.The only problem was they had the wrong Dodge Durango.This woman was completely innocent and sat in jail for 13 days while the real suspect who killed three people wasn't even on the cops radar.

You can't rely on one piece of evidence and just running with that to theexclusion of everything else.No matter what type of investigation you're doing or what type of technology is involved.

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23 year old Lindsay Isaacs of Ocala was arrested yesterday in connection with that crash.She is facing three charges of vehicular homicide and leaving the scene.Joaquin Dino was the motorcyclist who died along with Flagler County Deputy Administrator and his wife.Dino's daughter tells West two.It's been hard processing the loss of her father, but she says she's glad to finally know that the person accused of causing that crash is behind bars.Isaacs is being held in the Volusia County Jail on no bond.

The horrible crash that happened on October 4th, 2025 generated a large amount of local public concern.involvement from the comm of who the victims were H deputy county administra were killed in the wreck.Their children said that they took some comfort in the fact that their parents left this earth together, reflecting on how close the couple reportedly was throughout their marriage.The motorcyclist who was also killed in the wreck was Joaquin Anthony Dino, often simply Dino by his friends and family.He was a 54 -year -old motorcycle enthusiast from the Deltona, Florida area.Family members described motorcycles as both his passion and a huge part of his social life and identity.

According to his family, Dino had spent the evening celebrating his daughter's birthday before the crash, and he was riding home on I -4 with a group of other bikers who were his relatives and friends.And this would actually later become important because in a bizarre twist, there would be a connection between Dino and the actual suspect who caused the crash.More on that later.When authorities eventually announced that Lindsay Isaacs was charged with her father's death, Dino's daughter was interviewed by the TV.TV news.She said that sh the person who killed her bars and now she could m been something life chang to adjust to some type of you know, moving forward did the florida highway p the six month investigat conclude that Lindsay Isa was responsible.

That is a story best told by Lindsay's attorney, Patrick McGeehan of Daytona, Florida, who is actually the perfect attorney to represent Lindsay.in this case, because prior to practicing law, he was a 20 -year traffic homicide investigator who investigated and prosecuted these sorts of cases for a living.

I'm your Daytona Beach lawyer, Patrick McGeehan.I am your best friend at your worst time.As you can see, although it's a little dirty, This Dodge Durango is in immaculate condition.There is not a scratch on it.When you look at these types of cases, I look for what goes wrong.But in this case, I couldn't find anything that went right.

Every criminal defendant comes in and tells me, almost everyone, hey, I didn't do it.I'm innocent.And you kind of take that with a grain of salt.Lindsay Isaacs came to me, and she was just so compelling in her story.It's probably the first time where it initially jumped on me, and I thought, This girl is absolutely innocent.And then it only became more evident when we started doing our investigation.

So how did this begin for her?I mean, was she just riding down the street and got pulled over or did the cops reach out to her?In about 3 a .

m., she gets banging on the door and it's the highway patrol.The highway patrol says, hey, your vehicle's been involved in this big crash.She's like, what are you talking about?I haven't been anywhere.So FHP impounds her vehicle at that time, and they hold her vehicle.

So at the six -month point, I told her, hey, we'll wait for the six months to come up.If they don't do anything, we'll get your car back.We'll file an action against them.So we filed a replevant action at the six -month point, and then they responded by getting an arrest warrant and making an arrest.

Tell me a little bit about the accident that is underlying this investigation.

A group of motorcycles were traveling eastbound at a high rate of speed.followed by a Dodge Durango.And what the state relied upon is they had a witness that was in there behind a semi truck who said the Dodge Durango passed him at a high speed.an hour and he gets out gives his name to the highway patrol and says it's this black Dodge Durango so FHP goes and has somebody do their It's a system called vigilance here in Florida, where it's all the flock cameras and black tag reading cameras collect the database.And they went in and they started looking for Durangos and they got a hit on Lindsay's Durango with a tag number at that flock camera that's just inside of Volusia County, about two miles west of where the crash occurs.So they get her on the flock camera and they, they totally concentrate on the black Durango.

and the flock hit, and that's how they show up at her house in Palm Coast.

Was that her on the flock camera?Was she on that road that day?

Yes, it was her on the flock camera, but as it came down, there were other witnesses that they never interviewed and they never took their statements into account.Well, it turns out it wasn't a black Durango, it had another witness that FHP had, at the time of the 911 calls that said it was a maroon Durango with a partial tag number of 458.So they did a database search for Durangos with a partial tag of 458.That's how they came up with the second defendant made that arrest.

But when did they do that?Was that after your client had already been charged?Oh, yeah.

My client was charged, arrested and spent 13 days in custody.And they just last Friday, the state filed a no information and they filed that at I think three o 'clock in the afternoon, 1130 that evening, they arrested a new defendant.

When did they have the description of the maroon Durango?

FHP had that information of the 911 calls at the time of the crash, right after the crash, while they were doing their investigation.They never followed up.They went with this one witness that said black menThey connected that with the flock hit.And that's all they investigated to the exclusion of everything else.They had several witnesses describing the crash, but one witness in particular who gave the partial tag number and the description of a maroon Dodge Durango traveling at a high rate of speed behind the motorcycles.

And so had they searched this vigilance system for any other color, a maroon colored Durango, they would have found this other suspect.

Well, even easier than that, if they had gone and reviewed all of their 911 calls, they would have found that information.They had that information at the time they went and impounded Lindsay Isaac's vehicle.

And that's on the FHP cat.Now, did they make any attempt to interview her, obtain any statements from her at that time?

The only statements they got is when they when they confronted her, says your vehicle has damage.It was in this crash.Lindsay made statements, you know, denying it.And they cited those as spontaneous statements.But they never went to the trouble of, or they never went to the investigative step of actually doing a formal statement, Mirandizing her and taking her statement.

Tell me about the damage on her vehicle.

There's absolutely no damage on her vehicle.It's a 2025 Dodge Durango.It's in immaculate condition.We just got custody of it.FHP released it yesterday and the defense took custody.So now it's in our custody in a secure warehouse in storage.

We videotaped it coming out of FHP impound and there's absolutely no damage to it.You can see, although it's a little dirty, this Dodge Durango is in immaculate condition there is not a scratch on it this car does not have a scratch on it has a little bit of bird poop running down the side that you can see right there all the FHP evidence tags are still on it and it isjust in immaculate condition.As you can see, other than the bird poop, there's not a mark on this 2025 Dodge Durango.

Didn't they allege that there was damage on that vehicle consistent with the underlying wreck?

Yes, they did.They did that in their arrest warrant affidavit, their search warrant affidavit, as well as live testimony in a bond hearing.The FHP trooper got up there and said that they found damage consistent with this crash.And that was a lot?There was absolutely no damage.

Did they describe what the alleged damage was?

Yes, there was transfer paint and rubber paint because there was a rubber tire outline on the Ford Focus from the side swipe collision.And I actually entered photographs from the vehicle inspection that we did and confronted the trooper with it.And he testified, yes, there is damage on that vehicle consistent with this collision.And they said there were rub marks, and it had rained that night, and there were rub marks, and she tried to conceal the damage.But that proved to be totally false.

They seized the car.They sit on it for six months.You sue on her behalf to try to get the car back.And then they file for this arrest warrant.What happens next?

They file for the arrest warrant.They call me, and they go, hey, we have an arrest warrant for Lindsay Isaacs.I'm like, you're kidding me, right?And I go, no, we have an arrest warrant.So we had to take her to the jail and surrender her.And she spent 13 days in custody.

It was a no bond warrant.So we had to have a bond hearing.We had a bond hearing.The judge ruled against us.The judge ruled in favor of the state and held her no bond.A couple of days after that, I get a call from the lead prosecutor on the case.

And he goes, we need to talk to you.And I'm driving.Actually, I was leaving from visitingLindsay at the jail.He goes, we need to talk to you.And I'm like, okay, we need to talk, like you need me on the phone or you need me to come down?

He goes, well, it's very important.I go, okay, I'm in route to your office.So I go to his office.They say, listen, we no longer have, he goes, I can't get into it too much, but we no longer have sufficient information or sufficient evidence to hold Lindsay pretrial.And we're like, OK, so we do a joint motion for the judge for bond.We agree upon the bond amount.

The judge graciously gets us in right away, signs the order.She gets out that evening after 13 days in custody.

What was the reason that she was given no bond?Because this was a triple death wreck.

Yeah, because of the seriousness of the charges in the Florida, judges can hold you no bond pre -trial if they find that you're a danger to the community or a flight risk and the state has to meet a burden of, you know, a substantial burden that you committed the crime.All that stuff.There's a whole rigmarole for pretrial detention.But the judge found that the state met that burden and held her held her pretrial.

And as we know, the judges who are setting bond are relying on the allegations and the information that law enforcement or that the investigators are representing.to the court as being true.Which in this case, what three people died and this woman had allegedly taken efforts to conceal her involvement.

Three people were killed, one was seriously injured.The arrest warrant affidavit, the search warrant affidavit or sworn testimonies were the troopers got up there and it says right on there, Lindsey Isaacs is the owner and sole occupant of this vehicle.They go in, say this vehicle has damage consistent with this collision in both affidavits as well as in live testimony.And judges, you know, when judges get search warrants and arrest warrants,they rely on that sworn affidavit to make a determination of whether an arrest warrant should be issued and what bond, if any, should be assigned to that.

Now, this was a 2025 Dodge Durango.And as we're, I think, all slowly realizing our cars are equipped with all sorts of AI and other technology that sort of spy on us and track us constantly everywhere we go.Has that come up at all in this?Or have you guys looked into that, whether one way or the other, there's evidence in the Dodge Durango that shows where she was and where she was not?The EDR is what you're talking about.

It's the computer in the car.The EDR was never read, as far as we know, was never read by FHP.while it was in their custody.Now that this is our custody, we will be reading that.But what we know from Alyssa Montalvo's affidavit and her arrest warrant affidavit, that's the lady who was arrested when they dropped charges against Lindsay.They arrested her later that night.

FHP did, when they did the reinvestigation, read the EDR in her car and it showed the collision event.And then five seconds before the collision event, she was traveling 112 miles an hour.

Do you have any idea what it was that sort of flipped the switch where they realized that your client was innocent and that they need to go arrest this other person?What caused that, if you know?

When we did the pretrial detention hearing, I supplied the state with 40 photographs of Lindsay's car.And strategically, I also filed a motion to quash the arrest warrant, which basicallybecause you know, sometimes you file motions to seek relief and sometimes you file motions to tell the state where you're going.And I put a very detailed story about what really happened in this case from our perspective.And the prosecutors in this case, to their credit, when that information came through, that's when they requested a reinvestigation.The highway patrol took the regional traffic homicide investigators off this case and brought in a state team from Tallahassee.

When they began the reinvestigation, what they probably very quickly saw that there was this other 911 call that said it was actually a maroon Durango with a partial plate number.

What they did, what I can piece together from talking with them and the court filings and stuff, is what the two prosecutors took the information that I gave them, took it to one of the state attorney investigators, who basically ran with the case.That investigator went, pulled all the 911 recordings, started going through the CAD, and started before the new team from FHP got involved, started reinvestigating everything, lining up witnesses.And then when the new FHP team got in, he worked with them to actually go out and put the case together against Montalvo, which they should have done in the first place.And that case is another.You'd look at that case and go, why didn't they do this in the beginning?This is exactly what they should have done.

Tell me about the the new suspect.The new suspect is Alyssa Montalvo, female, 40s, lives in the area.Coincidentally enough, she is friends with one of the victims who died in this case, Mr. Denno.They apparently, according to the affidavit, they were at some gathering, a birthday party or something, in either Sanford or Orlando, and they were with this group of motorcycles, and they were caught.back to Deltona to go to somebody's house to continue the party.The motorcycles were coming eastbound at a high rate of speed, I'm guessing somewhere near 100 miles an hour because of the EDR on Montalvo's car.

And she was right behind them in the Durango.She gets in the crash, she pulls off on the road, she actually stops for a time on the side of the road and then gets back in her car and leaves.And then she goes to a body shop, has her vehicle repaired, has the door repaired, the doors repaired, a bunch of body work done to the car.And they track her using the Flock and license plate reader database.They track her all around town.So they have all these different pictures of the progression of how her car looks.

They got pictures of it as it's damaged, pictures with new doors that are, you know, slightly different color.Actually, her Durango's maroon and the doors were more like red.They got pictures of that.They tracked down the body shop.The guy goes, yeah, I put new doors on it.I did this body work to it.

I put four new tires on it.Here's the Zelle where she paid me for it and two or three payments.He gave a statement.And then the actual Dino's daughter gave a statement putting Montalvo at the location and then leaving, going back towards somebody's house for a continuation of a party.

And that is the investigation that should have occurred in the first place.

Correct.Correct.They ran down all the witnesses, took statements from all known witnesses, ran down the repair guy.The repair guy quoted her a price.She paid a deposit.He went down to Miami, picked up the parts from a junkyard, brought it back.

She brought the car over.he fixed the car for her, did all the new tires and stuff.The car was there when we took custody of Lindsey's car because it's an open parking lot.So we were able, we had to walk past Montalvo's car to get to Isaac's car.And you look at her at the Wrangler and you go, yeah, that's what a car looks like.

when it's involved in a into a deadly crash out i a drastic turn.The woma had her charges dropped a is now behind bars and de we now know how investiga Now, this was a crash on year.Three people were k the Flagler County Deputi woman facing charges in t Montalvo charges against including three counts of vehicular homicide, leaving the scene of a crash with death, reckless driving and tampering with evidence.She remains in jail tonight on no bond.Investigators were fixated on searching for a black Durango, which led them to Isaacs, even though her vehicle did not have damage consistent with the crash.Now the Volusia Sheriff's Office went back to review the 911 calls from the night of the crash.

A caller had reported that a maroon colored Durango driving recklessly and that led to deputies to Montalvo.

The seeing the maroon Dodge d close to one of the motor crash.Investigators also Montalvo's SUV briefly p shoulder before driving o charges, including tampe Court records show Montal days later to the vehicle were shown photos, an air and receipts showing she jail on no bond.

That's jThe trooper or troopers initially testified under oath that your client's car was consistent with having been involved in that wreck.And that was just completely fabricated out of thin air.And now knowing the actual evidence, it wasn't consistent at all.

If it had like a dent on the side or a big scrape on the side gone, you know, it becomes opinion.Yeah, that's consistent with the crash.Okay.You can see something like that.But there is absolutely nothing on Lindsey's car.It's immaculate.

And one of the big issues we had at the pretrial detention hearing was this rubber on this Ford Focus.I'm showing the trooper the pictures of the car.I go, is there any marks on these tires where you guys took tire samples?Any bruises on these tires or anything like that?His response to all the evidentiary questions was, The damage to Lindsay's car was consistent with being involved in this collision.That was his sworn testimony, and that was also their sworn testimony in the search warrant affidavit and the arrest warrant affidavit that they put before judges.

You're a former criminal investigator.What do you attribute that to?Do you think that this was intentional, or do you think that this was just sloppy police work or negligence?

It's so far past gross negligence.I mean, it's either at or it's tapping that criminal realm.I used to be a traffic homicide investigator for Miami -Dade County Sheriff's Office for almost 20 years.This is exactly what I did.I've been certified in courts as an expert in traffic accident reconstruction.I used to do assignments for the state attorney's office in Miami -Dade County, reinvestigating crashes that other agencies messed up, a lot of them the highway patrol, but

as well So I know exactly what process to follow in these Investigations how long it takes and what to do in these cases and in this case I cannot find any reasoning for their thoughts in their investigative process Whatsoever other than somebody said a black dodge Durango.We got a flock hit.This is the car and To me, it sounds as simple as that.That's all they focused on to the exclusion of everything else.

And having done a number of, of similar videos in the past six months from across the country, that seems to be sort of a recurring theme.As we have this new technology that, you know, identifies where your car was at all these different points with.facial recognition technology.It seems like investigators will rely on that and just think they don't have to perform, you know, a traditional investigation.That's exactly what it is.

It's, um, you know, the way, the way I was trained to investigate and my stance on the way I investigated these cases is we have a dead person or multiple dead people.You as the investigator, it is your job to go out and seek facts.Because there is nobody to speak for this dead person.So therefore, you must gather those facts which tell this dead person's story and you owe that duty to that victim.That's the way I always investigate it.I would go out and investigate and find a piece of evidence.

Let's say I got a blue car.Then I would search for evidence of something other than a blue car.Tell me something or show me something that says it's not a blue car.You try to disprove your theory.and only when you aren't able to disprove those investigative theories is that a legitimate investigative piece.You can't rely on one piece of evidence and just running with that to the exclusion of everything else.

No matter what type of investigation you're doing or what type of technology is involved.We basically started our own investigation.We did our own police work by sending out her phone.start looking around.We went to the scene.I actually go, when I get these types of cases, whether it's criminal defense or personal injury, I go to the scenes with my investigators.

So, you know, the more people you have there, the more you pick up.So we did this scene.We looked for an area canvas.There were no houses around, so we couldn't canvas the area.But we started going out and looking on social media for postings about it, making lists of possible interested people and all that stuff.And we got our investigation together.

And that was part of the information that, you know, the state ultimately turned on.

What would have happened had you not done the things that you did.

If you had somebody that didn't recognize this case, as in most cases, you would sit back, you would wait, you would wait for arraignment, you'd plead not guilty, you'd get discovery and go through discovery.But in this particular case, we never got discovery.Discovery is all the video, it's basically all the information, all the reports that the state has, that the FHP gives them, that they intend to use for evidence in the case.Because we had so much information from our own investigation, we were able to get this case ended before her arraignment.So we didn't, we didn't get all the body camera and all that stuff.We had to put a lot of stuff together on our own.

And if she had, you know, if she had somebody who wasn't, who wasn't knowledgeable about traffic homicide investigations and how the investigations work, it could have been several more months going through discovery, setting depositions before you ever could.point where you could challenge the state.It's very difficult to get a state prosecutor to lose confidence in their investigators.When the police detectives or officers send in the discovery to the state, to the state that's golden.That's how the case happens.But what I was able to do very early on in this case was cause the prosecutors to question the highway patrol investigators.

And that's why the reinvestigation came up.

If she ended up with somebody who's just sort of not knowledgeable about this sort of thing, doing the bare minimum, they can't afford to hire an expert to come in.And so you have the state police coming in and testifying under oath that, yeah, I've been doing this for X amount of years.I've had this training and that training.And in my experience, the damage on her 2025 Dodge Durango is consistent with having been involved in this accident.And they're checking all of those boxes, testifying under oath.And if she couldn't afford to counter that with, you know, her own investigation, her own experts, I mean, she could have been convicted of that.

and been completely innocent.Yes, absolutely.

I mean, public defenders do a great job for the resources that they have.And, you know, I try to help the public defenders out as much as possible because a lot of them know that I'm knowledgeable in this field.But the sad thing is, if she had had a public defender or an attorney, a defense attorney that's not knowledgeable, she'd have been in there for months.

The best way to win a criminal case is just to convince the prosecutor.

What really intrigued the state or interested the state was the motion to quash the arrest warrant along with the photographs that I gave.

Do you think there's any defense to their behavior?I mean, is there any reasonable explanation for the mistakes that they made?

No, what this stems from is there's a culture in the highway patrolthat's been there for a long time where they think they're the state police, but they're really not.The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is the state police.The Florida Highway Patrol thinks they are all of that.And back in, you know, the 40s and 50s, when they were a large law enforcement agency, That may have been the case, but that hasn't been the case in many decades.There's a lot of ego involved with the Florida Highway Patrol.

We've had these issues back when I was a policeman.I became a policeman in 87 and they were present back then and it's only getting worse.

Do you know whether or not there has been any sort of discipline or accountability for completely unnecessarily incarcerating your client.

I personally have been in touch via email with the director of the Florida Highway Patrol.He's been very responsive, very gracious.He's agreed to meet with us at the proper time, and he did indicate that he has initiated an internal investigation.We have also reached out upon referral of our state attorney, our local state attorney.We have reached out to the commissioner of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, requesting a meeting with him to go over Miss Isaac's concerns and Florida Department of Law Enforcement is the state agency which does internal investigations for the Florida Highway Patrol.So something's going on, they're investigating something.

How is Lindsey now?How has this affected her?

She's, I mean, she's the same positive, upbeat, bubbly person, but there's an extra jump in her step now.I mean, she was very, very scared before.Now she's very relieved.Uh, she's sleeping better.I mean, she, she went through an absolute time, terrible time in custody.She, she bumped heads with some of the, some of the jail guards and stuff, and they put her in solitary confinement and they, they really fought back after that.

lashed out at her, made her 13 days in custody very miserable.She's getting her life back together.She's absolutely traumatized, though.

Being incarcerated, falsely incarcerated, in jail, in G Block, was the worst 13 days in my life.

This is a person that had media show up at her house.They've been following her around trying to get statements from her.You know, before the case broke, her own doctor told her that he wouldn't treat her anymore because she was a criminal.She was in a very low place and she's just she's just coming out of it now.You could see you could see almost the rebirth of her.

Does she intend to file a civil lawsuit at this point?

Oh yeah, we're doing a 1983 action.That's why we're holding the vehicle.We're keeping the vehicle in secure storage.In addition to that, the estates of the decedents and the injured person have sued Lindsay civilly, and there's a civil case going on with that, and we were under civil preservation letters for the Durango.But yeah, we're going to keep the Durango until it's, you know, we exhaust all evidentiary value of it.

She's still being sued civilly as a result of the arrest as well.

Yes, the estates and the personal injury attorney of the injured person have filed suit.I don't know if they filed suit or they're in pre -suit with the insurance company, but they have served Lindsay and us with civil preservation letters to preserve the Durango.And I've updated, I updated when all this broke.I spoke with the insurance attorney the other day and updated her on everything that's going on.Most likely that case will now be dismissed.Wow.

That's wild.It really is a, One of the crazier stories that I've heard as far as, you know, misidentification arrests.

That's absolutely right.I've seen some bad stuff.I mean, I've seen some misconduct, but nothing to this level.This is this is absolutely insane.I was talking to my team yesterday when we were we were taking custody of the vehicle.I'm like, between all four of us were like, we've never seen anything to this level, not even close to this level, a blatant disregard for a person's civil rights, an investigative process, integrity of the investigation.

A lot of these cases you look for where it goes wrong or where it goes south.This is a case where we're looking for something that happened correctly or properly and none of that, none of that we could find.

Well, she was very fortunate that she ended up with you as her lawyer.I mean, out of every, literally out of every lawyer in the state.So I appreciate you, um, you know, telling the story and sharing this with me.And please let me know, you know, updates moving forward.This story is not about AI or the flock cameras making a mistake, though we've covered those incidents as well.This one is about law enforcement investigators relying on that technology instead of performing actual thorough investigations.

This is similar to the video we did where the woman from Tennessee was arrested and jailed for like six months for passing bad checks in North Dakota when she had never even been to North Dakota.Similar to that incident, as soon as investigators here received their very first flock camera photo of a Dodge Durango, any Dodge Durango, they just ran with it.Even though we know that there was at least one other Dodge Durango on the same road at around the same time.There are two likely scenarios to explain why this happened.One is that it was intentional, that investigators intentionally targeted an innocent personand tried to send her to prison for the rest of her life, knowing full well that she was innocent.

I certainly don't discount that that is a possibility because we've seen it before, but without some evidence of a motive for doing that, it's unlikely.Remember Hanlon's razor, never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.In other words, don't assume a conspiracy when incompetence will suffice.Most times, investigators don't intentionally frame innocent people, but rather suffer from tunnel vision, poor procedures, cognitive bias, bureaucratic pressure, or even simple incompetence.The most generous explanation here is confirmation bias, which is the tendency for investigators to form an early theory about who committed a crime or what happened, and then unconsciously interpret later evidence in ways that confirm that theory while at the same time discounting, ignoring, or rationalizing evidence that contradicts it.So they lock onto a suspect early.

Ambiguous evidence gets interpreted as incriminating.Exculpatory evidence is minimized.Alternative suspects stop being explored, and each subsequent step of the investigation becomes focused on proving the original conclusion rather than just testing whether it might be wrong.In the Lindsay Isaacs case, multiple eyewitnesses claimed that a Dodge Durango caused the wreck.One witness claimed that the Durango was black, but another witness claimed that there was a maroon Durango.For some reason, from the very first minutes of the investigation, investigators ran with the assumption that the Durango was black, because it quickly gave them a suspect to pursue.

We know this because the Lindsay Isaacs arrest warrant affidavit states that a flock camera approximately three miles west of the crash site photographedLindsay's Black Dodge Durango heading east on I -4 at exactly 9 51 p .m.m.The crash happened at exactly 9 53 p .m.three miles down the road.

So they then began to track Lindsay's Durango using other flock cameras as she proceeded eastbound towards her home.Investigators apparently did not search the flock camera photos for any other color Dodge Durango.If they had, they would have immediately found the actual perpetrator who was driving a maroon Dodge Durango.Even with one eyewitness claiming that the Durango was black, why did they assume that that the vehicle was actually black.It was 9 53 PM on a dark stretch of road because they were already locked onto Lindsay Isaacs and they just wanted it to be her.The best clue that they had from the very beginning that was consistent with all of the eyewitness accounts was that the Durango would have damage from striking the Ford Focus on the left side and then damage from striking the Suzuki motorcycle on the right side.

This damage was would later be confirmed on the actual suspect's maroon Durango.When law enforcement first located Lindsay's Durango that night, we know for a fact that there was zero actual damage on it, but they wanted to believe otherwise.Lindsay's arrest warrant affidavit claims that when her Durango was first located that night, shortly after the wreck, Flagler County deputies allegedly observed damage to the left side of the vehicle, matching damage located on the right side side of the Ford Focus.That allegation then formed a large part of the basis for Lindsay Isaacs being charged.The only problem was this was a complete fabrication.Either it was an outright lie or investigators wanted so badly to believe that it was Lindsay that they were seeing damage that wasn't there.

They were hallucinatingand then testifying under oath to the court that it was real.But it wasn't real.There was zero damage at all to Lindsay Isaac's 2025 Dodge Durango.This has now been heavily documented by her lawyer and his team.Video and photographs show that even after more than six months of being in the possession of the Florida Highway Patrol, there's no damage at all to her vehicle much less damage tied to hitting a specific Ford Focus.

What's even more egregious about this is that the allegations in the arrest warrant submitted to the court under oath that there was damage on Lindsey's vehicle and that it specifically was linked to the Ford Focus involved in this crash.Those were made after investigators had already had Lindsey's vehicle in their possession for over six months.This is a massive, They had the vehicle since they seized it on October 5th, 2025.It was towed and transported to the FHP Evidence Facility located in Deland, Florida, where it sat for months and months in their custody.It wasn't until April 16th, 2026 that the vehicle was seized.that they obtained an arrest warrant for Lindsay, where they swore under oath that her vehicle, the vehicle they had in their possession, had damage on it consistent with hitting that specific Ford Focus.

That's 193 days later that they swore that.They told the judge that there was damage and that it proved that Lindsay killed three people.So naturally the judge threw her in jail without bond where she sat until her lawyer rescued her.So there's actually a third possibility that this started out as confirmation bias and then at some point investigators realized that they had the wrong person and then instead of doing the right thing they justdecided to go with it so that they didn't get in trouble and they were willing to send an innocent 23 year old woman to prison for the rest of her life rather than to just admit their mistakes not to mention allow the actual person to who killed three people to go free.The entire time, the actual perpetrator was right there.

Once Lindsay's attorney alerted prosecutors that investigators had the wrong person, they ordered the investigation to be reopened, and they immediately found the actual maroon Dodge Durango that caused the wreck.Then they found that it had suffered actual damage consistent with hitting three people.the Ford Focus, and that the suspect had surreptitiously had that vehicle repaired in an attempt to hide evidence, which was made possible by the fact that investigators were locked onto the wrong person from the very beginning.Also, the entire 193 days they had Lindsey Sturango in their possession prior to arresting her, despite having a warrant to do it, investigators never bothered to analyze the black box that EDRD data that would have proved that she wasn't involved in the crash, but rather was several miles further east and never would have known about the crash that occurred behind her that dark night.But when they reopened the investigation and found the actual suspects Maroon Durango with actual crash damage, They did analyze that EDR data and it apparently showed that the actual suspect was indeed traveling around 114 miles per hour and was the vehicle that caused that crash.Now there needs to be a thorough investigation into the investigation.

Why did they not search for other color Dodge Durangos?Why did they claim to see damage on Lindsay's Durango that didn't even exist?Why didn't they analyze the damage?the EDR data on Lindsay's Durango.Like I said, the best case scenario is incompetence, but who knows?Either way, now somebody needs to take another look at not only this investigation, but every other investigation these same investigators have conducted.

How many people are sitting in prison right now as a result of these investigators' investigations?One of the craziest parts of this story is that the actual suspect, Alyssa Lee Montalvo is now believed to have known Joaquin Dino, the motorcyclist who was killed.More than that, she is now believed to have actually been at the party that night where Dino was celebrating his daughter's birthday.They were all apparently returning home together when the wreck occurred.Remember the TV news segment where Dino's daughter was relieved that the person responsible for her father's death was finally arrested, finally charged?Not only was that person completely innocent, but the actual responsible person She already knew that person because she was there celebrating her birthday with her apparently that night along with her father.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and speculate that the real suspect Montalvo had been drinking at that birthday party.Which is why Montalvo was driving 114 miles per hour.Driving like a literal homicidal maniac.Possibly trying to impress her biker friends, but then accidentally killing one of them, along with two other innocent people in the process, and seriously injuring another person who survived.And if this is true, how could none of the group of bikers, I think there were 11, how could they not correctly identify the actual suspect to investigators in the first place?Something tells me that there is more to this story.

Hopefully a thorough investigation will be done into this investigation.When I hear more, I'll update and you can follow along by subscribing both here and at the blog at thecivilrightslawyer .com.You can follow me on X and the other socials at JohnBryanESQ.Remember, our rights don't end where your fear begins.Freedom is scary, deal with it.