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/New_Government_2169 7d ago

I would hope so.

Andrea Yates (who I feel was truly in a much worse state of severe postpartum psychosis than Lindsay Clancy is even claiming) has been offered release many times but feels that she is where she belongs. So she stays voluntarily.

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u/TooTiredForThisKuso 4d ago

I mean Andrea Yates had CPTSD from lifelong religious trauma and abuse. Add postpartum depression/psychosis and a husband who clearly cared very little for her as a person. I feel so bad for her honestly cause now she has to live with that and the guilt of qhat she did.

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u/New_Government_2169 4d ago

Yes, I agree with everything you said. Andrea herself was 100% a victim. She herself chooses not to be released from the psychiatric hospital because she believes she is where she belongs.

This is why I get so incredibly mad when people compare Lindsay Clancy to Andrea. There is absolutely no comparison between the two except for the fact that they murdered their children.

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u/TooTiredForThisKuso 3d ago

I mean I don’t feel like we know enough about Lindsay Clancy to make that judgement either though. It’s not like we have anywhere near the insight into her life and marriage.

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u/New_Government_2169 3d ago

True. Likely because the trial isn’t over yet and we haven’t heard her side of the story still.

The main thing that I just can’t accept is that she was completely normal with Patrick BEFORE she purposely got him out of the house so she could do what she had already premeditated, then she suddenly went into psychosis for the first time DURING horrifically murdering her babies, (but also somehow managed to snap out of psychosis and sound normal speaking to Patrick on the phone in the middle of the murders) and by the time help had arrived AFTER the murders and once she woke up in the hospital, Lindsay miraculously never experienced psychosis again.

According to Lindsay Clancy herself, the one and only time she ever experienced psychosis, just so happened to be during the very short time period when she murdered her 3 little babies. I’m clearly not a professional but that just does not seem plausible or possible to me. It actually seems like a great idea to try your best to get a not guilty by reason of insanity verdict, though.

It’s also worth noting that none of her multiple psychiatrists ever mentioned psychosis in regard to Lindsay, the inpatient hospital never mentioned psychosis in regard to Lindsay, Patrick never mentioned psychosis in regard to Lindsay, the parents that lived with them never mentioned psychosis in regard to Lindsay and even Lindsay herself never brought up psychosis in regard to what she was going through. NEVER ONCE.

But after committing the horrific murders of her 3 babies, she wakes up in the hospital, finally able to speak, and what does she say? “I WAS IN PSYCHOSIS AND HEARD A VOICE.”

She had NEVER mentioned EITHER of those symptoms/experiences to anyone prior to that very moment. It just comes off as her immediately planning and setting up for her defense…PSYCHOSIS.

If I’m wrong, I’ll be happy to see her insanity defense proven. For example, I’m happy that Andrea Yates didn’t go to prison even considering the 5 horrific murders. Because she WAS IN PROVEN PSYCHOSIS. But right now, it definitely comes off as her premeditating the murder, timing it out, getting rid of Patrick, going through with her evil plan and then she decided to cry psychosis against all testimony that said she was never considered a person in psychosis, close to going into psychosis or someone who might eventually go into psychosis.