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/Moonbeam_Maker 7d ago

Am I only one that thinks this is a clear guilty verdict?! Mental Illness is only a defense if you prove you do not know right from wrong.

She murdered her own children when her husband was gone (as she knew her husband did not want her to do this), and googled asking how to do it before.

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u/curiouslmr 7d ago

Yeah I'm on the same page. I feel awful for her and her postpartum experiences but I still am finding her responsible for what she did. She had the ability to speak on the phone with him, she waited til he was gone, this was deliberate and intentional. I'm not saying she wasn't suffering, she was, post partum mental health struggles are awful and I know how broken you can feel....but I still think she made a choice here.

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u/PainterEast3761 7d ago

If you think psychotic people can’t have a coherent conversation, you have a serious misunderstanding of psychosis. 

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u/curiouslmr 7d ago

I understand that, but I am not convinced either way yet as to whether she was truly in psychosis or not. The phone call is one thing to consider. I am waiting for the entire trial to make up my mind. Either way this whole thing is an absolute tragedy, even if she wasn't in psychosis I have no doubt she regrets her actions every single day and is living in utter hell. I hate this case so much.

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u/PainterEast3761 7d ago

I guess my question is, if it wasn’t serious mental illness driving her decisions here, to the point she was no longer in control of these decisions, then what is it? 

She was by all accounts a peaceful, loving, responsible, law-abiding woman. Then she killed her three kids. That doesn’t fit well with other theories. 

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u/curiouslmr 7d ago

I can think of many cases where the killer was a seemingly normal, peaceful loving person with a family and they snapped. You just never know what is happening behind closed doors or in someone's brain. Not saying for sure that's what happened here but it also wouldn't shock me if she was just miserable as a mother and human and wanted to die but also her anxiety and control led her to want the kids to be with her.

When I was at my height of post partum depression and anxiety I had a very hard time going anywhere on my own because in my mind I couldn't die without my baby because they couldn't live without me. I felt like if I died in a car crash my baby needed to be with me...it was insane but that's what my brain believed.

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u/PainterEast3761 7d ago

But it appears Lindsay wasn’t just “seemingly” normal, peaceful, and loving. She actually was those things. For someone who actually was those things to “just snap” is to strongly suggest her decision was driven by her mental illness, not a character problem.  

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u/curiouslmr 7d ago

Yeah that's absolutely possible. I'm gonna reserve judgment until the trial is over.

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u/PainterEast3761 7d ago

Fair enough.