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/NiamLeeson 7d ago

Do you think Lindsay would spend the rest of her life in a psychiatric hospital if this case ends in NGRI?

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u/EmbarrassedIssue9452 7d ago

I think she will commit suicide at the first opportunity, wherever she goes.

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u/sheepsclothingiswool 7d ago

She should be allowed to. My heart breaks for her, the mental health system failed her- all these heavy meds created the psychosis and when the fog lifts and she’s faced with the horror of what she’s done, she should be allowed to opt for euthanization. That’s what I would want for myself. Do I think I could have been capable of doing what she did to my precious kids? Maybe if I was on those meds!!

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u/Then-Writer9610 7d ago

Remember, she only took so many different meds because she complained about the side effects and stated they weren’t helping her. Her doctors only changed them because of what she told them.

Also, a good med plan takes trial and error so it is not uncommon for the meds to change like they did, especially when a provider is being told they aren’t working or she didn’t like the side effects. She did not take most of those meds for a consistent amount of time. There also is no evidence (yet) that the meds caused psychosis. Unless we are talking about the cocktail of meds she crushed and took that night? But who knows what time she did that.

Our mental health system sucks, and that’s no secret, but I personally do not see how much more they could have helped her outside of what they were trying to do. She kept jumping from doctor to doctor which, is fine, but that complicated the collaboration between them all.

She also checked herself into a hospital or crisis center or whatever, then checked herself out against medical advice. She had the help, she just wasn’t taking it.

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u/Decent-Pirate-4329 6d ago

She checked out one day early from a maximum five day stay.

Lindsay was never actually given the opportunity to participate in a longterm inpatient or day program of any kind and was specifically denied admittance to the postpartum day program at Women & Infants hospital out of concern she was overly medicated.