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Column: When I was a new mother like Lindsay Clancy, I had a terrifying thought

Column: When I was a new mother like Lindsay Clancy, I had a terrifying thought

Published by Sam Flores

I have the opposite of a morbid fascination with stories about mothers who kill their children. I also am deeply discomfited by stories about women who leave their children, “Kramer vs. Kramer” style, to go off and find themselves. The mother-child bond is so deep, and so sacred, that it’s inconceivable to me that a mother would abandon her children, let alone take their lives. And yet, of course, it has happened before. I have tried hard not to pay attention to the story of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mom who killed her three children in January 2023. Cora was 5, Dawson was 3 and Callan was 8 months old when Clancy strangled them with exercise bands in the basement of their two-story Duxbury home. This week, my curiosity overcame my revulsion. I watched parts of Clancy’s livestreamed murder trial. I don’t pretend to understand what, exactly, drove the former labor and delivery nurse to kill her children, but I do understand the way that postpartum hormones, anxiety and sleeplessness can upend even a sane …

The unspoken testimony in the Lindsay Clancy trial

The unspoken testimony in the Lindsay Clancy trial

Published by Sam Flores

IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Deaf dog is reunited with her owner after the devastating floods in Nepal 00:31 Now Playing The unspoken testimony in the Lindsay Clancy trial 15:32 UP NEXT Trump announces executive order to create U.S. Space Academy 01:31 Teen Learns to Walk Again After Accident, Now Running Track 04:40 Craig Melvin Hosts US Open Event at Lotte New York Palace 02:32 Exclusive: Roger Federer Talks Induction Into Tennis Hall of Fame 05:06 Chicago woman reunited with her dog after 12 years 01:34 Air Traffic Controllers in Spotlight Following Troubling Incidents 02:06 NASA Set to Launch Next Generation Flagship Space Telescope 03:06 Verdict Watch Underway as Jury Deliberates Lindsay Clancy Case 04:19 Trump Orders ‘Lake America’ Renaming; Iran War Hits 6 Months 02:26 Millions in Northeast Face More Heavy Rain Following Storms 02:44 Red Cross Worker Details New Secondary Flood in Nepal 04:09 Rescuers Search for Hundreds in Nepal Floods; More Rain Looms 02:07 Nepali army rescues people trapped in a tunnel …

What to Know About the Lindsay Clancy Murder Trial

What to Know About the Lindsay Clancy Murder Trial

Published by Sam Flores

Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial is in the hands of a jury after a month of searing testimony about the deaths of her three children in 2023 and the psychiatric problems she experienced before she killed them. Closing arguments concluded Thursday in the case, which has sparked debate online and demonstrations outside the courthouse over maternal well-being and the mental health system. The jury was sent off to deliberate at around 12:30 p.m. Here are some basics about the case. Clancy, 36, is a Massachusetts woman who is charged with murder in the deaths of her children: Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. She hasn’t disputed killing them but has pleaded not guilty to murder by reason of lack of criminal responsibility. Clancy was on maternity leave from her job as a labor and delivery nurse when the children were strangled on Jan. 24, 2023. She has been in custody since. What happened to her family? The children were strangled with exercise bands in their home in coastal Duxbury, Massachusetts. Their father, Patrick Clancy, …

How Will the Lindsay Clancy Case Affect Mental Health?

How Will the Lindsay Clancy Case Affect Mental Health?

Published by Jenni Sidey

I used to think that the worst thing that could happen to a person was to lose a child. After interning in a forensic psychiatric unit, I changed my mind. The worst thing that can happen to someone is to lose their child (or children) by their own hands during a psychotic episode. Like many, Lindsay Clancy’s story has raised a storm of emotions inside me. As a human, I mourn for her and her family; as a person who has experienced psychosis, I am thankful to have been spared such suffering, and as a therapist, I watch the questioning with anxiety. Lindsay avidly sought mental health treatment, yet the mental health system did not prevent these deaths. The trials are exposing critical gaps and realities in our systems of care, such as the confusion that can arise when someone sees multiple providers, particularly given strict laws governing information releases and barriers to care coordination. Similarly, the arbitrary “plan” threshold that is often held for psychiatric hospitalization when a person presents to crisis services. Would …

The Lindsay Clancy murder trial exposes MAGA lies

The Lindsay Clancy murder trial exposes MAGA lies

Published by Sam Flores

Having kids is easy, and anyone who says otherwise is an ugly feminist trying to scare other women out of their only true source of joy and fulfillment: This is the narrative that has grown up in the MAGA movement in recent years. The right has become increasingly obsessed with nostalgia for the imagined bliss of 1950s-era white families with housewives-in-aprons raising large broods. At the same time, they have become progressively vitriolic toward anyone who notes that the era’s realities were much harsher than what was shown on Nick at Nite sitcoms. Part of their story, then, is that it’s a vile myth that pregnancy and motherhood can be hard on women.  Before his death in September 2025, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk regularly advised young people to “get married young and have more kids than [you] can afford.” Along with his wife Erika, he frequently implied that financial barriers to raising kids are exaggerated by the left for nefarious reasons.  The message has also been picked up by MAGA commentators like the …

Forensic psychologist testifies Lindsay Clancy is ‘criminally responsible’ for children’s deaths

Forensic psychologist testifies Lindsay Clancy is ‘criminally responsible’ for children’s deaths

Published by Sam Flores

IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Federal judge rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s request to toss sex trafficking conviction 03:06 Last witness in Clancy trial takes the stand 04:06 Now Playing Forensic psychologist testifies Lindsay Clancy is ‘criminally responsible’ for children’s deaths 03:25 UP NEXT Body of Massachusetts woman suspected in her police officer husband’s death found 01:41 Four Georgia police department employees arrested after alleged misuse of Flock cameras 03:50 Judge in Lindsay Clancy case denies defense’s motion for mistrial after witness brings up religion 04:43 California attorney general cancels Paramount merger talks 02:09 Psychiatrist clashes with Clancy attorney on definition of postpartum psychosis 04:10 Hiker speaks out after violent attack 01:36 Defense rests its case in Lindsay Clancy murder trial 05:02 Woman accused of plotting ISIS-inspired attack on New York Capitol building 02:30 Hospital chaplain testifies Lindsay Clancy heard persistent ‘voice’ ahead of her children’s killings 02:24 Psychologist testifies Lindsay Clancy thinks of her children ‘every single day’ after 2023 killings 05:12 Calif. AG Rob Bonta …

Lindsay Clancy murder trial in Massachusetts

Lindsay Clancy murder trial in Massachusetts

Published by Sam Flores

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As the Clancy Case Highlights Postpartum Psychosis, a Mom Stricken by It Shares Her Story of Hope

As the Clancy Case Highlights Postpartum Psychosis, a Mom Stricken by It Shares Her Story of Hope

Published by Sam Flores

About two weeks after giving birth, Bridget María Chesterton was curled up on the bathroom floor, saying things that made little sense. Later, in the emergency room, she kept repeating, “What’s going on?” She’d lost touch with reality. Researchers estimate that the condition — a mental health emergency that is less common than postpartum depression — afflicts 1 to 2 out of 1,000 women after delivery. Although most who develop postpartum psychosis don’t harm their children, mothers with severe cases may try to harm themselves or their kids. If not for medication and strong family support, Chesterton said her own situation “could have gone sideways.” Chesterton bristles at online comments about the Clancy case suggesting postpartum psychosis is not a real disorder. She feels driven to raise awareness by sharing her story publicly; a poem she wrote about the experience will be published in a journal in the fall. She wants to dispel misconceptions about the widely misunderstood condition — and let families know there is hope. “It’s something that we do not talk about …

The Patrick Clancy Conspiracy Theories Are Rooted in the Harsh Realities of Motherhood

The Patrick Clancy Conspiracy Theories Are Rooted in the Harsh Realities of Motherhood

Published by skeptic

For many watching Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial, the primary takeaway has been how the deaths of her three small children—Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callen, eight months—were tragically preventable. Lawyers for the Massachusetts nurse are arguing that she’s not criminally responsible for strangling her children, because she suffered from severe postpartum psychosis, a rare mental health condition that causes new mothers to experience delusions and intrusive thoughts. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington has put Lindsay’s health care providers on the stand, in an attempt to demonstrate how his client repeatedly sought help for her terrifying thoughts, only for her to be minimized, dismissed, and overmedicated at every turn. For others, including a thriving community of TikTok armchair detectives and conspiracy theorists, the Clancy trial has resulted in a much different takeaway: Lindsay’s husband, Patrick Clancy, was responsible, either literally or by virtue of being a neglectful husband. Many TikTokkers are convinced that he actually committed the murders and framed his mentally ill wife so she would take the fall. To be clear, there is no evidence …

The Lindsay Clancy trial shows the growing power of true-crime TikTok

The Lindsay Clancy trial shows the growing power of true-crime TikTok

Published by skeptic

True-crime fandom no longer wants to watch from the sidelines; it increasingly wants in on the case. Consider the recent lineup: TikTok helped pull the Menendez brothers back into the national conversation decades after their convictions. Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s defamation trial became daily social media programming. Luigi Mangione developed an intense internet fandom before his case even reached trial. Increasingly, audiences aren’t satisfied with following a case. They want to investigate it, influence it, and sometimes insert themselves into it. Most of this activity unfolds outside the courtroom, where it shapes public opinion without becoming part of the official case. But that boundary is now being tested in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother charged with murdering her three young children in Jan. 2023. Clancy’s defense acknowledges that she killed them but argues that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and was not criminally responsible for her actions. Online, however, some viewers have rejected both sides’ accounts and begun conducting their own parallel investigation. But it wasn’t one of their conspiracy …