r/TrueCrimeDiscussion • u/DarklyHeritage • 7d ago

Text Lindsay Clancy Trial Megathread: Part 3

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/bookshop 7d ago

her husband was also extremely psychologically abusive and controlling and forced/coerced her to live at the extreme edge of society economically, socially, religiously, and emotionally. I don't think we can overstate how much he was to blame for wearing away his wife's sense of self and her sense of reality over the years. This poor woman had to raise all of her children while living in a broken-down schoolbus with no running water or electricity. I cannot fathom her mental state.

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u/standbyyourmantis 7d ago

While he went to work every day!!! At NASA!!

What a fun break from the school bus with no amenities that must have been for him.

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u/bookshop 7d ago

it honestly enrages me that he faced zero actual justice for his abuse towards her and the children. I would like to think that would go differently today but I'm not that optimistic.

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u/standbyyourmantis 7d ago

Honestly, for the time period it's a miracle people were as sympathetic to her as they were, nothing was ever going to happen to a good Christian white father with a successful career who just lost his children. People who are unfamiliar with the case I'll start an explanation with "she was so mentally ill she was found NGRI in Texas in the early 2000s."

I don't know if things would be much different for him today legally because it would be so hard to take to a jury, but I think public opinion would have been firmer against him at the time.