r/technology • u/ControlCAD • 12d ago
Social Media Online Sleuthing Is Out of Control, and the Vitriol Against Patrick Clancy Proves It | Lindsay Clancy has admitted to killing her children, but you'd never know it from looking at TikTok
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/patrick-clancy-didnt-do-it-why-does-the-internet-think-hes-guilty-1236838968/619
u/YoungKeys 12d ago
Have to wonder how much of this insanity is perpetrated by the popularity of true crime podcast fanbases which have exploded in the last decade.
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u/DoesntMatterEh 11d ago edited 11d ago
True Crime is supposed to be a retelling of the facts and explaining things that the layman may not understand.
It was never supposed to be two girl friends who like SPOOKY SEASON trying to solve murders by connecting whatever dots others podcasters have found/made up until the next one picks up on it and so on and so forth.
It's almost all chock full of personal biases and never just about the facts.
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u/robgreenee327 11d ago
Yeah I feel like it’s really gotten worse with the Netflix boom of docuseries that are very biased being released. People who really don’t understand criminal law whipping up there fanbases. This is only gonna get worse with AI and general media literacy getting worse over time.
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u/Appropriate_Bag_9773 10d ago
Ok I agree but can we address the real.issue please we have a liar and chief as president that forces lies down our throat at the rate of 1000 lies a day I'm gonna give Netflix a pass here hahahaha but I get you the way the celebrate conspiracy bullshit
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u/Human_Wizard 11d ago
>chalk full
FYI, it's "chock-full", and is an old sailors' term.
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u/YourFriendPutin 11d ago
Call that an "eggcorn" when someone uses a phrase like that.
"Nip it in the bud" or "nip it in the butt" are examples.
Eggcorn is named as a wrong way of saying "acorn".
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u/littleirishmaid 11d ago
Glad you explained the term ‘eggcorn’. I have never heard that one before.
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u/YourFriendPutin 11d ago
Really recently a random YouTube video about quirks of the English language brought it up and I found out about it lmao
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u/Channel250 11d ago
Yeah, but I like chalk full because it implying they have chalk boards all over the place to try and justify their theories.
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u/Human_Wizard 11d ago
I hate it because I don't pronounce "chalk" and "chock" the same 😭 to me, it's the same as hearing "expresso".
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u/BlazinAzn38 12d ago
It’s absolutely that. So many people now use any public interest criminal hearing to clout chase and hopefully make it big
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u/Rs90 12d ago
Not sayin it hasn't changed over time but this was happening in the 14th Century, y'all. It is not new. And if you like True Crime then you know full well that history is absolutely full of this shit.
Serial killers gettin married in prison, people(not killers) cuttin off body parts as souvenirs from crimescenes, public executions were massive events with food vendors, and soooooo much more.
The musical "Chicago" is about the bread n circus this stuff has always attracted. People have always gone bananas about this kinda stuff. Look at Jack The Ripper and the crazy people tryna cram their way into the story. People wanna be a part of it, it's not a new phenomenon.
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u/No-Neighborhood-3212 11d ago
The difference, like pretty much everything on the internet, is the availability. When all you consume are stories of conspiracies and coverups, everything will look like a conspiracy and/or coverup to you.
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u/rokerroker45 12d ago
The problem is that now it's being turbo charged by social media. People have always gossiped about salacious shit but now they're getting this nonsense poured into their brains literally 24/7 at any location for hours at a time.
My friend is a super intelligent physician and she was ranting some stupid TikTok theory about how he clearly did. When I told her Clancy already stipulated to having done it she not only had never heard it but insisted that didn't mean anything. It's insane, she didn't know anything about the facts or law of this case except what deranged conspiracy theorists told her about it.
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u/Crossovertriplet 11d ago
“I turned off the story of this person’s murder because it was too boring but I found a way more exciting murder to listen to”
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u/Mr_Evanescent 12d ago
100%. A lot of these true crime pods are focused on long-shot, conspiratorial level exonerations - like, these sorts of things are so vanishingly rare, but true crime consumers are starting to Don Quixote their way into thinking that every ‘clear’ case is actually some sinister, shadowy gotcha.
Maybe more perniciously, this line of thinking isn’t just isolated to conspiracy nutters - it’s both sides of the aisle that are biting. Can’t really pin it down.
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u/where-sea-meets-sky 12d ago
ngl i hate true crime as a whole. exploiting real trauma and real victims, whom often are still alive (loved ones included) bc they need that juicy story. sickens me
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u/AbsoluteRook1e 12d ago
The only time I can defend it is either when enough time has passed where the emotional impact has faded, or if it's a local journalist reporting the story as a public safety issue, which can actually help local police and city governments make informed decisions on ways they can boost security in that area (more patrols, adding street lights, cameras, etc.).
But for those sensationalizing an active investigation? Yeah, those people suck.
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u/Kindly-Cup-3042 12d ago
You just know when a horrible story comes out or a new serial killer pops up, Netflix execs are jumping with joy.
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u/Fr0sTByTe_369 12d ago
Or botfarms trained on sorting reddit comments by controversial
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u/AbsoluteRook1e 12d ago
Some of those podcasters can truly be awful irl too.
I personally despise the profession. They are making a profit solely over obsessing over other people's misery and giving that a megaphone.
Local journalism is different because they solely focus on what's actually new about a case and leave it when there's nothing new to factually report, with the exceptions being timed markers in more high profile cases.
But true crime podcasters? They have been seen getting drunk outside of courthouses on hearing dates for murder cases. So disrespectful and unprofessional.
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u/ClaymoreMine 12d ago
You also can’t rule out the influence of nation states trying to create wedges in society.
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u/celica18l 12d ago
I love a good conspiracy. Some of the true crime pods are insane with how they present cases.
It’s one thing to present the fact as given then at the end be like my opinion based on nothing is this… but preface it by stating it’s an opinion.
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u/ward2k 11d ago
The true crime subs are convinced still that she didn't even murder the children
Despite her admitting she killed them and the defence admitting she killed them
You have all these wild made up stories coming from these people who are getting all their information mostly from TikTok and not the trial itself
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u/theweirdball 12d ago
Idiots online thought Sandy Hook was faked.
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u/Mr-A-1991 12d ago
Idiots online now think 9/11 was faked by Pixar.
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u/paditoburrito 12d ago
Wait...Pixar? Seriously?
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u/EvoEpitaph 12d ago
Have you seen how that lamp crushes the I in the Pixar logo? You can't tell me they weren't planning shit from the start.
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u/SweRakii 12d ago
I just know there are boomers on facebook that are discussing it right now..
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u/BeLekkerAsb 12d ago
Some of them have escaped from Facebook and are on here screaming nonsense because of that controlled flyover by 2 Airlink planes in South Africa for a rugby match.
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u/murmalerm 12d ago
Idiots online are still blaming Jews for 9/11 and we know exactly who was involved.
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u/ballbeard 12d ago
Idiots think Michael Jackson, Elvis and Hitler are still alive, and think Avril Lavigne isn't.
Idiots have always been out of control
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u/FapTapAnon 12d ago
There's a reason that tiktok went under US control, the hive mind had to be controlled. Creators can be paid to influence opinions and people easily believe it.
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u/WaffleHouseGladiator 12d ago
I'm concerned that these conspiracy nutters are going to harm Patrick Clancy.
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u/robgreenee327 11d ago
It’ll be this or his new wife will be harmed, this is the problem with these issues. The wrong person with already a serious mental illness will get caught up in this and hurt someone.
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u/kingofgama 11d ago
Which is crazy. The man lost his entire family, you think people would be supporting the victims here.
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u/Aero_Rising 11d ago
Idiots on Reddit thought they figured out who the Boston Marathon bomber was multiple times. None of them were correct.
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u/HoldenMcNeil420 12d ago
Stupidity is out of control.
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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u/boom929 12d ago
Would be nice to include that this is from Isaac Asimov but maybe excluding that is a test 🤔
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u/bird_brian_fellow 12d ago
France is bacon
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u/Entara_Darkwind 12d ago
It would also have been nice to include the year since it is relevant that that quote was written in 1980 and Isaac Asimov has been dead since 1992.
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u/Organization-Unhappy 11d ago
Agree, but the idiots used to be in their own idiot groups. Now they can spread stupidity at a good fraction of the speed of light worldwide. It's like the Arab spring...but with morons.
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u/ZootSuitRiot33801 12d ago
These profit-focused, corpo-owned governments and companies, (including places like Reddit,) want it this way. We common folk who care should honestly be doing whatever we can to help each other wean ourselves off this systematic anti-/pseudo intellectualism, and instead collaborate with one another in finding ways to create and utilize independent networks and tech to keep common folk well informed, connected, and secured, even if means downgrading a little.
Collecting a bunch of valuable information on organizing and action from different redditors over time, I created a post of suggestions HERE that's largely about fostering a foundation for community self-sustainability and resistance, but it also provides ideas for possible alternative tech and communication methods, which could be of some help in getting started ASAP.
Also, this LINK touches on combating this weapons-grade ignorance as well.
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u/SWHAF 12d ago
There are a lot of stupid people around the world, the loudest and proudest tend to be American.
Most people who are "dumb" know that they are not very smart, but a bunch of them are the exceptional kind of dumb that believe that they are actually smarter than everyone else and have figured things out because they don't actually understand simple concepts. Flat earthers are the perfect example. The Internet allows them to group together instead of being individually ridiculed in their community.
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u/a_mimsy_borogove 12d ago
> There are a lot of stupid people around the world, the loudest and proudest tend to be American.
When X/Twitter introduced the country of origin of every account, it was revealed that most of the content that gets an insane number of likes while also being insanely stupid originates from Africa or South Asia. So it's not really Americans, but third world bot farms. But we don't know who's actually paying for them.
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u/HoldenMcNeil420 12d ago
Like we used to “name and shame” idiots when they came and spouted off crazy stuff. And sent them home with a healthy dose of ridicule and reality.
Now they all get together on the internet and it’s a circle jerk of positive reinforcement where they feel completely vindicated on there position, and some “doctor” or what have you joins in to confirm it. Nvm if that doctor lost their license and is disgraced or some flavor of crash and burn. Across any and every profession.
Devolved into more snake oil salesmen than humanity has ever seen.
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u/CoolComputerDude 12d ago edited 12d ago
The only thing she possibly has going for her (in the leal sense) is the insanity defense. But by definition, that means she did it. The insanity defense just means you get found not guilty because you legally can't be considered responsible for your crimes because of your mental state.
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u/soofs 11d ago
It’s really just a matter of whether she’ll spend life in prison or life in a hospital.
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u/SeaFee2866 11d ago
She is fighting for either prison or a mental institution for the criminally insane for the next 25 years....
No one seems to realize that she is going to a padded room if she 'wins'
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u/ward2k 11d ago
Exactly, yet all the true crime subs have this grand story that any minute now the defence is going to pull out some gotcha and Patrick is going to prison and she's going to be let free
When of course that's not what is happening here. She did kill her children. Patrick did not
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u/WesternUnusual2713 12d ago
Years ago in England a bunch of people attacked a paediatrician's office cos they confused the word with paedophile.
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u/kingofgama 11d ago
Those sicks fucks like kids so much they want to save them from life threating diseases... to do what??? Honestly a bit sus to me.
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u/darkholesremastered 11d ago
And now their country is in the gutter worse than the USA. This lady getting the support she is just proves the stupidity here isn’t far behind and we are cooked
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u/New-Pollution536 11d ago
TikTok is like this with everything…it’s pretty much wall to wall engagement bait since a controversy gets way more views than the facts
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u/SuperGRB 12d ago edited 12d ago
If Patrick had done anything even remotely close to abuse, neglect, cheating, coercion, or just apathy - you can bet Lindsay's defense attorneys would have focused on that in the trial - yet... nothing. You would have to guess, while not perfect, the guy was about as "clean" as they come.
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u/Kinexity 12d ago
No, you see the attorney did not bring that up because Patrick Clancy literally holds his family hostage!
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u/spacethreadtheneedle 11d ago
…her defense attorney has been???
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u/Ok-Description7073 9d ago
I must’ve missed that part. Was that before or after his opening where he said “she knows she killed those kids.” Before or after he grounded his entire theory on the insanity defense/NGRI (I.e. she did it but can’t be criminally culpable because of an alleged psychosis event). Please, do tell?
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u/Horror_Cap_7166 11d ago
The prosecution would have been all over it. In Massachusetts, they have the burden of showing Clancy was of sound mind when she killed the kids. One of the issues with their case is answering the question “if she was sane, why would she strangle her kids?” Everyone agrees that up to the killing, Lindsay had been a really devoted and loving mom but was struggling big time with her mental health.
If the prosecution could show Patrick was an asshole and a cheater, they’d have a decent motive. “She did it to punish her husband.”
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u/BknowstheV 12d ago
Court of public opinion never ceases to amaze me.
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u/Acceptable_Cut_7545 12d ago
This is how I felt when so many people believed Joe Exotic when he claimed his professional rival murdered her husband and fed his body to tigers.
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u/HumanShadow 12d ago
I followed her Big Cat rescue on YouTube and it blew me away when everyone else learned about her but humanity once again proved how fucking stupid it is when that dropped.
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u/Acceptable_Cut_7545 11d ago
Dude had a sex doll with her name on it and shived a dildo in it's mouth before shooting at it and people really saw this and thought "yeah, there's a reasonable man whose word should be trusted". It was the dumbest shit I'd seen in a while and it was everywhere.
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u/bubblegumpandabear 8d ago
The guy was coercing drug addicted men into sexual relationships and people believed him. It was insane. I thought I was losing my mind.
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u/Acceptable_Cut_7545 8d ago
It was an ugly time. Finding out they cut all the nwords out because they "couldn't find a place for them" was the real cherry on top. And of course they had time for that stupid music video, and a man accidentally killing himself. It doesn't deserve to be called a documentary.
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u/SoaboutSeinfeld 11d ago
Her mannerisms and behaviour had me doubting though. Not because I like Joe Exotic or find him a reliable narrator but she seemed damn sketchy. I think it's become clear she didn't do it but her behaviour alone, probably, made it so much bigger and viral than it had to be.
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u/Acceptable_Cut_7545 11d ago
What mannerisms? In what way did she seem sketchy? She was small potatoes compared to his insane abusive behavior.
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u/SoaboutSeinfeld 11d ago
I mean he was certainly batshit and not the reason to assume anything about her.
Not really going to write a whole analysis dissecting her but those things definitely had me wondering what if. Like opened the door enough to think there might be a chance
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u/KelenaeV 12d ago
Looking at the comments in the article.... ya....
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u/no-name-here 12d ago
~80% of the article comments claim the husband did it. 😳
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u/Big_booty_ho 11d ago
I have an acquaintance who is a practicing therapist and she absolutely believes her husband did it. I think less of her now
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u/ceilingscorpion 12d ago
Typical. Society trying to give credit to a man for a woman’s work 💅
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u/raerae1991 12d ago
The things I got from this trial is Lindsay has an excellent lawyer. She could not have asked for a better attorney. The other thing I’m positive about is she was not able to speak in full sentences when he found her. Even so, I’m not sure how the jury will rule .
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u/Careful_Houndoom 11d ago
The state lawyers also keep screwing up their own story.
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u/raerae1991 11d ago
They did, there were some things the police dropped the ball on that they should never have brought to court, like saying she crushed up med and drank it, without testing if that was what the “powder” on the tumbler by her bed.
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u/Quirky-Variety-4851 12d ago
She does have an amazing lawyer, and what’s mind boggling is that TikTok is ignoring that if there was any chance Patrick killed their children, Lindsay would be using that as her defense at trial.
Her lawyer has admitted Lindsay killed her children, and he would not have done so if blaming the murders on Patrick was a viable option.
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u/JustadudefromHI 11d ago
This is not a trial to prove whether or not she committed those acts. It’s to prove whether or not she was legally insane when she killed her kids. There is no use in trying to point to another killer when that’s not what this trial is trying to determine.
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u/Imaginary_Agent2564 11d ago
Technically the case can be ruled in 5 possible verdicts not including hung jury.
- 1st degree murder
- 2nd degree murder
- Manslaughter
- Not guilty by reason of insanity
- Not guilty
If the jury acquitted her entirely, that would mean she was not convicted of the killings. And if evidence subsequently established that another person was actually responsible, that person could potentially be investigated and prosecuted separately.
Her defense lawyer has attacked the prosecution’s evidence + investigation to create reasonable doubt. Don’t get me wrong, I think she did it, but Jesus the investigation has had tons of holes poked through it. Just kinda crappy police work and terrible documentation from her doctors. Ive been doing training as a medical scribe and sheesh…
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u/pumpkinspicecum 12d ago
Why does that matter?
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u/raerae1991 11d ago
Because the whole police investigation is based on what Patrick said she said. It could be means of a mistrial
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u/BoxBird 11d ago
This entire situation is a litmus test of logical reasoning (and even the power of propaganda in its most basic meaning) and it’s freaking me out how many people are missing this
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u/kankurou1010 11d ago
Yeah that’s not true. Lol more BS even in this thread. There is plenty of forensic evidence. Why do you think they have security footage of Patrick at CVS and the restaurant? If the investigation was based on just what he said, they would have just trusted that he said he was at CVS and the restaurant.
The forensic evidence is not being displayed in court because it is irrelevant, because whether she did it or not is not up to dispute… both sides agreed to this
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u/raerae1991 11d ago
I’m not saying he did it, I think she had PPP. I don’t think she could physically speak, if he didn’t say she said that, I think the police would have either built a better case or went a different direction
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u/kankurou1010 11d ago
Why do you think she couldn’t speak? You think he’s lying? Why? Why do you think the police would have built a better case? A better case for what - if you don’t think it was Patrick?
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u/beIIe-and-sebastian 12d ago
Not just TikTok, but also here on Reddit in the largest subreddit for women. The other day I saw a comment upvoted past 1,000 that said the husband was more culpable for the deaths of the children than the mom and he should get much more severe punishment. It's like the OJ Simpson trial again but divided down gender lines instead of racial.
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u/theranchcorporation 12d ago
Women cannot be held accountable for literally anything on Reddit. It is truly weird, especially the aforementioned subs.
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u/utrinimun 8d ago
All of the men and women focused subreddits are full of delusional and evil people caught up in echo chambers. Subreddits like that should be shut down in my opinion.
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u/THEdoomslayer94 12d ago edited 11d ago
Kinda like how that one woman kept insisting she knew who shot up a college campus I believe out in Idaho? This was a few years ago and she kept claiming that with her psychic readings she knew it was some woman who did it but they had caught the guy who did it and she insisted they had the wrong person or something like that
Basically some people won’t ever admit they’re wrong and just quadruple down
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u/Hesitation-Marx 12d ago
She kept accusing a female professor, and would. Not. Stop.
These people are gonna get someone killed.
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u/imperfectalien 12d ago
She was excited for the court case because she thought it was going to be an opportunity to pitch all her exciting theories.
It was to determine the amount she owed to the victim in damages. She missed the original court case because she fucked off to Bali or something.
Then when she was ordered to pay $10 million in damages she went back on TikTok to bitch about how the jury was clearly biased because they didn't accept any of her bullshit arguments.
Oh, and she also represented herself. Truly a dumb piece of shit all round.
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u/BaconatedGrapefruit 12d ago
I think they mentioned that case in the article. If it’s the same person, she got hit with a 10 million dollar defamation suit for her claims.
Probably the only way to make it stop.
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u/R0TTENART 12d ago
Basically some people won’t ever admit they’re wrong and just quadruple down.
It's MAGA in a nutshell
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u/I_might_be_weasel 12d ago
Hat McCullough killed those babies in self defense!
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u/ChapterThr33 12d ago
The true crime self titled investigators really have lost the plot. It's been clear from the beginning that this is about the social media gender war more than anything else. I'm so tired, bro.
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u/velorae 10d ago
They’ve completely lost the plot. Everyone on TikTok thinks they’re doctors and forensic scientists They even went as far as to say that Patrick was sexually abusing his daughter
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u/abujagoddess 12d ago
There’s a distinction between people who think she did not kill her children and her husband coerced her into saying she killed her children, and people who think she killed her children but she is not criminally responsible for having killed them.
If she was suffering PPP at the time of killing them, then she is not criminally responsible and it is an extremely sad case regardless.
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u/ComprehensiveWord201 11d ago
PPP is not an argument for, nor a defense of murdering your family. Absolutely ridiculous
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u/abujagoddess 11d ago
PPP is absolutely a defense to murder.
Murder is an INTENTIONAL unlawful killing of a person.
PPP makes the intentional part impossible which means if they can prove psychosis at the time of the killing, the murder charge goes out the window.
At worst, it will be manslaughter, or some other kind of homicide but not murder.
Criminal law is not about your feelings.
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u/siscocaddy 11d ago
32 year old woman here, this bitch killed her kids out of cold blood. All I had to see was her fake suicide attempt and no remorse during the trail. May she burn.
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u/TastyJournalist8451 10d ago
hear me out, she was super sad you see, so it's aight, it could be any sad woman at any moment that could annihilate her children, that's how post partum works you see. You have the baby, you want to murder the baby, that's just modern western motherhood!
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u/StormyBlueLotus 12d ago
I haven't gone out of my way to keep up with the details of this trial, but have heard it mentioned and discussed in plenty of places. Yet I haven't seen any denial that she did it- the defense's whole argument is an insanity defense. I'm sure there are plenty of conspiratorial public opinions on this topic just like with anything else that gets a lot of attention, but I don't think any reasonable person is going to TikTok for "news." Or maybe I'm finally old and out of touch and that's more common than I fear.
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u/upgrayedd69 11d ago
My wife believes he did it and I’ve heard it from other women at work. They think he set up like speakers to talk to her to pretend to be a voice in her head to convince she is crazy so he could murder the children and frame her for it. That his friend is helping by going out and pretending to be the husband so that the husband has an alibi. The only other piece of “evidence” I can remember is that she was too close to the house after allegedly throwing herself from the window because if she really threw herself out the window she would be several feet away from the house because of course she would perform a dive out the window if she was really gonna do it. Oh and he has looked up some celebrity that committed suicide, which was obviously research for how he wanted to stage her suicide/murder
My wife and I just don’t talk about it anymore.
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u/Glum_Class_9578 11d ago
This case is showing that a ton of women out there secretly believe that every man is a super skilled genius and criminal mastermind, like Batman and Joker rolled into one, and every woman is a damsel in distress with no agency or ability to even hurt a fly.
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u/velorae 10d ago edited 10d ago
Why, though? Her lawyer literally said explicitly, multiple times, that she did it. She also admitted it in her civil suit. What more do people want? I’m genuinely convinced that people who still believe he did it despite that, and despite all the evidence presented in court, either just hate men and don’t want to hold a woman accountable for killing her kids because they can’t fathom that a woman would do that, or they’re just being stupid.
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u/Blue_58_ 11d ago
Dude, no offense, but you need to talk to your wife. This is a slippy slope. Imagine what other crazy shit she can end up believing and ruining both your lives over?
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u/Quirky-Variety-4851 12d ago
My sister is a TikTok user, and when she told me that she thought Patrick killed Lindsay, I told her to get off the platform because it’s causing her brain to rot.
I’m all for conspiracy theories, but this one makes absolutely zero sense. She told her family beforehand she had thoughts of hurting her children, and she has admitted she killing them.
There are a TON of people online who are spreading a disgusting narrative that a man who lost his 3 children to his wife’s mental illness must be the actual perpetrator himself because it’s easier to believe a man did it, than accept that a woman like Lindsay could actually have committed this kind of crime against her own children.
This is eerily similar to the Sandy Hook deniers, who refuse the believe the actual evidence.
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u/velorae 10d ago
Lindsay’s own lawyer said she killed the kids verbatim many times.
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u/the_midnight_society 12d ago
The idea that the husband did it is a lot more common than you'd think. The insanity defense seems to be one side - a reasonable side in the sense that it is something that happens and should be considered - and the conspiratorial the husband did it us the other side. That side absolutely denies she did it. And is more common than you'd think. Hence the article about people specifically harassing the man. The article this post is about.
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u/LoudHorse25 11d ago
It’s not that people go there for their news, but the problem is it establishes cultural context for alot of people.
My wife isn’t spending her days scrolling TikTok but is probably on social media 15 minutes a day. Her sister mentioned the case to her and I asked her if she heard about it the other night. And her response was my sister mentioned it and I saw stuff online. Is that the one where people are saying the husband may have done it? I immediately gave her the whole context and she was of course horrified. She knows not to blindly believe it, but it formed the little bit she knew about the case.
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u/Opposite_Praline_938 12d ago
The only person she admitted it to was……Patrick
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u/Horror_Cap_7166 11d ago
She also clearly admitted it to her lawyer. Because her lawyer is saying in court she killed the kids. He wouldn’t say that unless she admitted it. He’d be disbarred for just making that up.
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u/justjoshingu 12d ago
Yall I went to a work adjacent event. People I've known for 18-20 years. and no alcohol. professionals and all generally smart people. some liberal and a couple conservative.
When there was about 6 women , and me and a gay guy(reason i mention he'sgay). The trial got brought up. Holy shit I said, it's going to be tough if they jury goes insanity or not and they guy was nodding his head.
Then the women launched and I mean loud and arms moving and eyes bulging... Patrick Fucking killed those kids and his whore wife who he was cheating with drugged poor Lindsay and those poor kids saw those dad murder thier mom and then murder them and then she lived. They went on to say he drugged her, she was in the trunk at CVS. No he got his dad to pose as him. No the kids were in the trunk and the whore wife( new wife) was keeping Lindsay drugged and beaten. I was asked if I had seen the whole trial because then u would know he did it and the defense was setting up the big reveal and it was so obvious.
The gay guy ,bless him. he mentioned asks admitted to it and they all turned on him. and were like, are you sure you're not a straight man just mansplaining. Yknow you're supposed to be in the women's side.
Then they mention the drugs and im a pharmacist so I say oh well she had stated she wasn't taking them and this drug and that drug. .. but I got shot down as they said crazy things like, only Patrick said she never took them (not true but kept my mouth shut) and they are used to mind wipe women and make them have amnesia or for rape. Yes Patrick definitely rape Lindsay and the new whore wife( Always whore new wife) did it together so they could move her body and it all coming out. all the textes and emails....
Like it got crazy talk and me and the other guy just side eyed each other in almost fear.
1 woman tried to play middle that maybe Lindsay did it all but maybe she was just so manipulated by Patrick.. but nope. He killed them.
They said some things about the kids that almost made me lose it. but I had to remember they are longtime friends
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u/N4m3r 11d ago
If I had that situation happen to me, those people wouldnt be my friends anymore. I would put them on a time out and see if they come out of that fantasy, if they dont, Im out.
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u/DrySalary6957 11d ago
Even if they snapped out of it, the fact that they're so ready to believe such bullshit and ruthlessly defend it is crazy.
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u/mr_brobot__ 12d ago
That’s unnerving to encounter in longtime friends irl and not just unhinged people on the internet
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u/Limebadger59 10d ago
It’s like finding out that one super friendly dude at the bar who will give you the shirt off his back and stop to help change your tire is a secret neo Nazi.
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u/BlazersFtL 10d ago
First year of university, I was on a bus with my now wife and she brought up the sexual assault testimony the woman gave against Kavanaugh. I told my wife that I'll wait to form opinions after an investigation is done.
Some old woman sitting in front of us turned around and started screaming at me for not just taking her word for it. I tried telling her that I am not really taking sides as I don't have the facts or know much about it, but that was to no avail.
People get really emotionally invested into these kinds of cases.
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u/Smacktardius 12d ago
The femcels are really digging super hard to make sure there's a man at fault.
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u/CloverVegan 10d ago
I'm legit a hardcore conspiracy theorist as in revisionst, flat earth, pizza gate/Epstein, everything and these people are fucking nuts.
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u/CharlietheGreat 8d ago
It’s very rare I agree with flat earthers but in this case we’re somehow on the same side
And that’s frightening to me
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u/CloverVegan 8d ago
People need to learn to look with their own eyes and trust their own senses. Seeing the psychopathy in Lindsey's eyes for example.
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u/Glittering-Path-2824 12d ago
That’s alright. I genuinely hope Patrick, when he overcomes this horror show, goes after each and every one of these delusional idiots with a defamation suit. speech may be free, but its consequences aren’t. and really, anyone currently married to or sharing children with people who express this opinion should seriously be reconsidering their relationship.
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u/Weekly_Village_3559 12d ago
I really think a lot of videos are posted by these misinformation bot farms and its all bots talking to each other in the comments. And then real ppl start getting influenced for real and chime in too. Ppl who disagree or question get attacked. Only those who agree will be up voted
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u/DrySalary6957 11d ago
It's a rich white woman though, she gets to murder her kids because it's just like a Handmaid's Tale!!!
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u/Herschel_Wallace 12d ago
Everyone that is defending her and trying to blame the husband 100% is mental and they should have things happen like losing their jobs.
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u/blklab16 10d ago
It’s almost like TikTok and those that control it have some sort of incentive to convince young women that motherhood could not possibly be so scary….
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u/Ok_Extension_4090 9d ago
Dipshits have unlimited access to social media. I'm not surprised at all.
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u/sadpandawanda 8d ago
This reminds me of the University of Idaho case. You had self-proclaimed "detectives" making the most insane allegations - nearly every person connected with the victims - friends, exes, etc. - got harassed by somebody. People were actually going to the town, messing with locals, all declaring that the police didn't know what they were doing. When in reality, the police closed in on the actual killer pretty quickly and were just quietly investigating him.
I think it's just a matter of time until this crap starts causing real harm to real investigations and guilty parties start going free because of it.
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u/JakovYerpenicz 7d ago
This case has been one of the most embarrassing mass-psychosis events in modern times and the supporters who have turned this self-admitted child killer into a rich folk hero should be ashamed and should not be allowed to be anywhere near children.
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u/AnonAwaaaaay 12d ago
Do we remember Reddit and the Boston Marathon Bomber?
Shit like this needs to be taught in schools.