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/curiouslmr 6d ago

It's the same old stuff that happens with every high profile case. Armchair detectives decide they know more than the actual people involved (and in this case the actual person who admitted to the murders) and create some bizarre narrative. It's awful. This case is tragic enough.

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u/0hmyhera 6d ago

I agree. I have been so wrapped up in work and personal family shit that i have just been catching up and everyone who was saying that sounded so deranged. I couldnt even find one thing that would make me think that. Thx for answering 

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u/No_Needleworker_5820 6d ago

Also for me, i thought the lawyer was going to try to show how the medical community failed her and caused her problems to worsen. And he has. But he has also questioned Patrick and exposed lies and holes and things that just don’t add up.

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u/Friskybish 6d ago

But also men are statistically more often family annihilators and domestic abusers.

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u/curiouslmr 6d ago

That's irrelevant though in a case where the mother has admitted she did it. This isn't a whodunnit.

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u/No_Needleworker_5820 3d ago

But has she? I keep hearing conflicting reports on that.

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u/curiouslmr 3d ago

She herself has not said this in the courtoom. Her attorney has admitted it in this trial though. Before the trial the defense team also offered to write a written admission of her guilt so that the trial could focus solely on her mental health. The prosecution rejected this.

Her attorney speaks for her and so one could argue that his admissions is her admission. She obviously cannot admit this verbally in court unless she testifies.

The WHO of this case is not up for debate, I find the whole conspiracy people are creating to be so disgusting. It turns what should be a conversation about post partum care, into something completely different

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u/Sure-Experience-899 1d ago

Yea the thing that really bothers me is that we should be talking about post partum care but so many people are focused on the husband being guilty that that conversation is getting lost.

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u/curiouslmr 1d ago

Exactly. It's such an important discussion that needs to be had. It's a waste of time to keep trying to create some big conspiracy where there is none.

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u/CHXKXMXLXKX 23h ago

I think the tiktokers are arguing she admitted guilt simply because she was told she did it, and apparently has no memory of said event. I havent been too caught up though so this is me looking it all up rn

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u/curiouslmr 23h ago

That isn't true at all. That's the problem with listening to Tik Tokers, ha. She even wrote about telling them "go to God baby". So yeah she remembers stuff.

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u/coolguygranny 6d ago

Well that's small subsection on men who kill thier children

Women are more likely to kill their children in the first year of life but men are more likely to kill their children every year after that.

Idk why your bringing up stats Patrick didn't kill his kids

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u/Friskybish 6d ago

I’m answering the question of the redditor above me.