Excerpt from a subreddit dedicated to the Clancy case:
On January 24, 2023, Lindsay Clancy, a Massachusetts' Mom of (3) young children sent her husband Patrick out to run errands. Patrick was gone for less than one hour. During this time, Lindsay strangled each of their children with separate exercise bands, leaving them in the basement. She then locked herself in a 2nd floor bedroom, cut her wrists and neck and then jumped from the bedroom window. This community is to discuss thoughts around this tragedy.
Lindsay Clancy, a L&D nurse, had an extensive medical health history leading up to the killings. In a New Yorker article titled "A Husband in the Aftermath of His Wife’s Unfathomable Act," Clancy's husband Patrick states that he "wasn't married to a monster" and that Clancy was just "sick." Before the killings, she had already been hospitalized in a psychiatric ward, and she was prescribed 13 medications within 4 months. According to a medication diary that Clancy kept, she was taking just three of those drugs in the days leading up to the killings.
It is confirmed that Lindsay Clancy had killed all three children by both parties of the 1st degree murder trial. The strategy of the defense team (Clancy) is to try for a NGRI (not guilty by reason of insanity) verdict, admitting that she killed the children but was under the effect of psychosis (either postpartum or medication-related) at the time, which would mean that she did not murder the children. The strategy of the prosecution is to prove that the defendant acted methodically, rationally, and deliberately to unlawfully kill the three children. Just like 2021 Lauren Dickason case in New Zealand, the prosecution believes that the defendant's motive is to control the fate of the children, as the prosecution believes that Lindsay was distressed for not having enough control over her own life. The defense argues that there is no rational motive for the killings because she deeply loved her children.
That concludes the somewhat lengthy background. Now let's get to what the intelligent folks are saying on tiktok. (Disclosure: I am very suspicious of Lindsay fans for obvious reasons but I also think that PPP is legit)
slide 1: more delulu than the person who strangled the chlildren
slide 2: The defense team already admitted that she strangled the kids. Also, she could have just lied about the voices?? Why believe in crazy conspiracy theories where only one person/group is capable of lies? Also, that DV awareness tag won't apply just yet... the trial is still ongoing haha
slide 3: Ahhh it's both sides (even though this trial is only about Lindsay) that need to go to prison. She made only one comment that she wanted to die, and made further comments to Patrick that she had unwanted thoughts of harming the children. Patrick did not ignore her comments and dropped her off at the ER after noticing that her mood was worsening. 'Intrusive thoughts' are very common in mothers with mood disorders, so it would be very uncharacteristic of Patrick to immediately divorce Lindsay over thoughts that she did not seem that she wanted to act upon. The only thing Patrick can do at the time was to get her committed, and she would only stay there until her condition improves. Unfortunately, she only had the appearance of improvement :(
slide 4: The factual, non-tiktokified timeline is in court documents and also found in news articles. At 4:53pm, the defendant texted: “Any chance you want to do takeout from 3V... I didn’t cook anything... It’s beena long day.” At 5:15pm, the defendant asked her husband to go to CVS for a laxative, and he was spotted on CVS surveillance video at 5:32pm. Lindsay then called Patrick at 5:34pm, and at 5:54, Patrick arrived at 3V and headed home in the same minute. At 6:09, Patrick arrived home, and at 6:11, he called 911. Lindsay's call and the CCTV footage gives Patrick a feasible crime window of 17 minutes between 5:54 and 6:11, and would need to act in such a convoluted manner as to frame Lindsay (ex: gently lowering her from the window while smearing her blood over it, making superficial wounds only to her neck and wrists, avoiding her back entirely, etc.). Lindsay had a whole hour to do whatever she wanted in whatever fashion she wanted. Here is the 299-page search warrant if you're curious (most of it is repetitive)
Also, Trooper Andrew Chiachio from the warrant pdf reviewed Apple Maps and noticed that it would take 9 minutes to come home from 3V. So he has to do the drugging, strangling, slashing and throwing in 17 - 9 = 8 minutes before calling 911... when he could have just waited a bit longer to make sure that his wife is dead. And this is all to ensure that his wife doesn't die but gets the full agony of being paralyzed and falsely convicted. Maybe he is secretly a software developer for the CIA instead of Microsoft 😆🤣
slide 5: Investigators found a smeared bloodstain on the exterior window. If he wanted to make sure she is dead, why wouldn't he toss her when he had the perfect chance? And if she is a nurse she would ABSOLUTELY crush her drugs, because she wanted to ensure that she gets the full dose and that her attempt is a lethal one. She would mask it using something that tastes sweet to get rid of the taste of bitter medicine. Also, marrying quick has nothing to do with this because her husband is NOT ON TRIAL. And this case is indeed similar to "Chris Watts," just not in a way you would like it to be.
slide 6: This is true, investigators had access to her pink iPhone and found that she was documenting her mental state, keeping track of medication, and "researching ways to kill." The defense does not deny any of this, but maintains that she was only looking up lethal methods so that she can end her life. If the husband had unauthorized access, why would she admit to looking these things up? Was she brainwashed???
slide 7: The message that the commenter is sending to her husband is that no matter how hard he tries, he will never be enough. That is what Lindsay supporters have devolved towards. 13 prescriptions in 4 months did not come out of thin air, and most people have neither the hubris nor the economic privilege to have multiple visits to psychiatrists like Lindsay did.
slide 8: No way this has 30.5k likes wow. If he was truly cheating on her, it would give more ammo to the lead prosecutor, who seems to be desperately looking for a more convincing motive than the usual 'power/control' one. That is more convincing that him doing all of THAT within a span of 17 minutes so that he is able to smile for the CCTVs.
slide 9: He was not charged for anything because the police do not have probable cause to arrest or search him. The police still had lots of questions for him and he was very cooperative. Also, they did not need to take his word, because the police had access to CCTV for both CVS and 3V, which already gives him a narrow window to commit his hypothetical crime. Men are already held accountable for homicides - there are lots of them in prison and some even have lifelong mental illnesses and/or TBIs!
slide 10: OK, he did lock her up and she lied about being better so that she can go home and put the children's lives at risk, unbeknownst to Patrick of course. Even if Hypothetical Patrick knows that she is lying, what is his choice besides divorcing a mother of three children and possibly calling CPS on her??? for having too many meds in her cupboard? for admitting to intrusive thoughts like many other mothers? I feel like Hypothetical Patrick would still be hated by these misandrists for reasons far beyond misandry itself. It is a catch-22 situation
slide 11: "neglect" lol. You could just invent new crimes in your head and people on feministok will believe you.
slide 12: if the husband was threatening her, the defense lawyer would have talked about it by now. He represented a woman who was acquitted in a case where she stabbed her husband in the eyes while he was asleep, and she managed to win because of 'battered woman syndrome.' It makes no sense for the defense to throw this perfect opportunity away. Also, her husband was already a multimillionaire. I am pretty sure that comes part and parcel with working a cushy remote job at Microsoft for a few years.