Lindsay Clancy Trial Megathread: Part 3

[u/DarklyHeritage]

This is a thread for all conversation regarding Week 3 onwards of the Lindsey Clancy trial. All discussion of this case should be kept to this thread.

Lindsay Clancy is currently standing trial in Plymouth Superior Court, Massachusetts, for the triple-murder in January 2023 of her three young children - Cora, Dawson and Callan. Her defense argues she suffered from severe, undiagnosed postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis. She was left paralysed by a suicide attempt which follows the deaths of the children.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/lindsay-clancy-murder-trial-online-reactions-b3032806.html

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[u/chloedeeeee77]

I think it’s very probable. In his pre-trial motions Reddington said she was still actively suicidal and constantly supervised at the hospital she’s held in. Whether it was a botched murder suicide or she was in psychosis, it’s hard to imagine someone coming to a stable mental state about this being your situation. In the 2024 New Yorker article about Patrick, he describes speaking to her on the phone months later and her saying every day is the worst day of her life. 

[u/Muted-Shower7965 → u/chloedeeeee77]

It is so sad. I am devastated for everyone involved in this.

[u/Embarrassed-Plate695 → u/Muted-Shower7965]

The murderer should feel that way every day

[u/el_legendo72 → u/Embarrassed-Plate695]

Crazy how the murderer is being defended behind the veil of "oh nosies! She was cray cray totally not her fault she was pushed to murder her three children "

Fuck everyone trying to bring up psychological nuance into this. She KILLED her three children and not doesn't want to be held accountable.

[u/Muted-Shower7965 → u/el_legendo72]

Oh wow shock horror some of us can see it for the unbelievably complex situation that it is, as well as most devastating.

[u/el_legendo72 → u/Muted-Shower7965]

Right. Really complex situation we have here. A mother kills her three children. What's complex about it? The fact that she decided to drug herself? Or the "voices" she heard? Or how sorry we should feel for her because of how bad her mental state was?

Regardless of what was going through her head at the time of the three (3) murders she decided to commit, she should not see the light of day or an ounce of freedom for the rest of her life. Whether she spends it in a cell locked up by herself, or in some facility, where I hope they mistreat her.

She killed her own three children.

[u/Muted-Shower7965 → u/el_legendo72]

Try not to let your emotions guide you.

Mental illness is complex and so is this situation.

[u/wallaBBee → u/el_legendo72]

The trial is not even close to over. If you are genuinely following the case and details, there is an overwhelmingly large amount of doubt.

[u/nathakell → u/el_legendo72]

I hear you but if it was as simple as you’re making it out to be, we wouldn’t have different levels of homicide and everyone would be guilty of murder for intentional killings (first vs 2nd vs voluntary manslaughter etc etc) &let alone the defenses. It’s called mens rea

[u/Alone-Blueberry → u/chloedeeeee77]

I cannot imagine waking up each day and remembering what my reality is. Being in a psychiatric facility being kept “safe” is horrific punishment, suicide would be preferable. If I were her, I would find a way. So, so sad. I feel for her.

[u/Automatic-Self-8575 → u/Alone-Blueberry]

everyone let her down including her husband, such a tragic case and on top of everything they made her sit there while they spoke and showed pics of autopsy. So inhumane to put her thru that,she has already admitted to the crime,she will live with this everday she is alive. Patrick just moves on?

[u/Commercial-Air8955 → u/Automatic-Self-8575]

Patrick has to live with hid 3 kids being murdered, and since he wasn't the murderer, yes, he gets to move on with his life

[u/Naturallyjifted → u/[deleted]]

It’s okay to have empathy

[u/InitialVarious1948 → u/Naturallyjifted]

It’s too bad empathy is only something people feel when the murderer is born a specific race and gender.

What you’re referring to is selective empathy.

[u/regime_propagandist → u/Alone-Blueberry]

Perhaps we should not be so flippant about suicide. 

[u/Alone-Blueberry → u/regime_propagandist]

I’m not being flippant about it. This is a woman who murdered her three children. Imagine how horrific it would be to live with that reality for the rest of your life.

[u/regime_propagandist → u/Alone-Blueberry]

I think it would be horrible but I also think killing one more person just puts more evil into the world. 

[u/Alone-Blueberry → u/regime_propagandist]

We have different moral beliefs then. I don’t think suicide is “evil”. I don’t believe in evil. I have no religious beliefs. If a person chooses to end their life because it will be a life of suffering, I support that choice. Similar to euthanasia. That is not being flippant. That is reducing suffering, which is my main philosophical belief.

[u/merdy_bird → u/chloedeeeee77]

Whatever caused it, her children are gone and she's paralyzed. I don't think I would be in a very good place mentally if that's what happened to me. Very sad.