Lindsay clancy trial

[Widowwith2]

Has anyone else been following the lindsay clancy trial? What is everyone thinkin? I dont think she done it

But she will suffer FOREVER over her undiagnosed untreated puerpal psychotic actions and ignored cries for help .. .. or is that not punishment enough for you?

I’m not sure what could cause more suffering in her life than that?
Meanwhile Mr moved on to a shiny new less troublesome new family is given a crowd funded million

"Meanwhile Mr moved on to a shiny new less troublesome new family"

Well since all his kids are dead and his ex wife is a triple murderer he didn't have a family left so didn't have much choice did he?"

I’m not sure about that. Maybe her dreaming of doing those things (I mean, I don’t think she’ll be doing a wheelchair marathon anytime soon!) is better than her just quietly rotting away in a mental institution for the rest of her life?

3 months later? He’s also Mr Speedy

post partum psychosis

i kept seeing this thread and ignored it
but today i heard talk of this on the news
i wish i hadnt

@awaynboilyurheid. No obviously not. We start on that route we are saying anyone who has a serious mental illness and has asked for help can then be ‘let off’ of a prison sentence for killing. I’ve absolutely no doubt she’s suffering and I’ve seen court footage of her which broke my own heart, but she murdered three young children.

had a man done this and been as unwell we would not be trying to find excuses to keep
him out of prison

I don't understand why if she actually heard a voice thats fine but if was intrusive thoughts that isn't. I often get thoughts telling me to do stupid stuff even lick dog poo , go on do it.

When pregnant with my first child and two weeks away from the delivery date, I watched a cat food ad on TV. I honestly wanted to eat the cat food. Walked to the supermarket and stood in front of the pet food aisle.

Then I had a brilliant idea. Why not a tin of corned beef? I bought it and told the check out person my thoughts and that a tin of corned beef was the better option. They looked at me with concern 😀

The corned beef was lovingly put onto the plate and I ate the lot. A fork was used. The key turner didn't break. Absolutely delicious.

I haven't been able to eat corned beef ever since.

Totally bizarre.

Do you think that it would be more appropriate for her to be in prison or in a psychiatric institution? She isn’t going to be ‘let off’ - she will be in one of those two places. Which one do you think is more appropriate?

is it me or has this been an unusually long trial for what the jury is ultimately being asked to decide?

The pace must be so frustrating for the jury. I’m glad her poor ex-husband has only had to appear for his witness testimony.

And it’s just my opinion, but the prosecution lawyer seems somewhat inept. She mumbles and stumbles and ‘ers’ her way through her questions which appear to go nowhere. She seems to have spent an inordinate amount of time proving things that nobody actually disputes. In contrast to the defence lawyer, she seems lacking in confidence and hesitant.

Fwiw, the prosecution have failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she was criminally responsible for what she did because of her mental illness. I think she’ll be acquitted.

She may well have been suffering, no one could argue that she wasn't. But those children's lives were not hers to sacrifice. They died in absolute terror, at the hands of the very person who gave them life. Mental illness does not absolve her of responsibility here. There has to be justice, alongside mercy for what she did.

The more I watch of her in court, the more convinced I am that she knew exactly what she was doing. There is something very disturbing about her behaviour.

What do you see in court? I see her just say staring.

@throwawayimplantchat I honestly don’t know because this isn’t something I have knowledge of or an area I work in. My opinion would say prison but I don’t know enough about the American system nor what degree of mental illness would
or should not make that an option and where she currently is with mental health. Only those professionally involved can make that call

Didn't the professional say she had bad days and worse days?

Prison won't help her she needs medical help and lots of it

Let off? She will still be locked up this trial is about where she gets locked up if its psychiatric facility it will be indefinitely

I recognise postpartum psychosis as a real thing yet remain very sceptical that this was the case in this incident based on a combination of factors.

It is statistically very rare, estimated at about 1 in every 629 cases, that a first instance of psychosis will lead to murder. It is also unlikely (though possible) that she would sound normal to her husband during this claimed psychotic episode whilst he was out on her well planned errands for him that we are to believe she organised all whilst in the grip of psychosis.

So is her defence possibly true - well some people win the lottery jackpot twice, so we can’t say very low statistical possibility equates to impossible. If the question is do I think beyond reasonable doubt she wasn’t having a psychotic episode when she committed the murders, my answer is yes.

I also think there is an interesting question over which verdict is best for society (not that this is in any way how a verdict should be reached). Not guilty is ultimately a verdict that could lead to more women having a way of dodging accountability for filicide and lead to more deaths. Not guilty may also lead to greater awareness of postpartum psychosis and depression and lead to more women seeking treatment and provision of better resources.

I think this thread demonstrates the dangers of watching too many true crime documentaries

I believe that it is more appropriate for her to be in prison. If she is in a psychiatric institution then she has the opportunity to be released. She will be entitled to yearly reviews where she could be released if it’s determined that she no longer poses a danger to herself and/or others. It’s unlikely that she would remain in a psychiatric institution for life. Studies indicate that the average length of stay in a psychiatric institution for a person found NGRI (not guilty by reason of insanity) is between 4 and 8 years.

I also believe that she was NOT psychotic (experiencing command hallucinations) and could appreciate the unlawfulness and wrongfulness of her actions at the time that the crime was committed.

https://youtube.com/shorts/ohiKJa4qmMI?si=U75s2anyfTAPwbTO

https://youtube.com/shorts/62qM2TymwFs?si=ZIpq47kbmZIBPUyH

https://youtube.com/shorts/kip3aauXqps?si=dv-FimG4XmMQ7TQQ

The FBI psychiatrist was a very powerful witness testimony.

I think that anything other than prison sets a very dangerous precedent here.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/27/how-to-spot-a-psychopath-its-like-the-difference-between-a-domestic-cat-and-a-wild-cat

This is an interesting read.

I’m not sure. We have plenty of very violent serial killers locked up in secure psychiatric hospitals in the U.K, ie Broadmoor. Surely that’s the sort of place she should be.

This is a common yet wrong view that those in psychosis can’t function ‘normally’ it’s actually very common that automatic functions remain perfectly intact but the thought process is very disturbed. I remember a case years ago where a patient believed she was in a relationship with a complete stranger. She was able to organise the sale of her home, book removal companies, pack up all her belongings etc. and it was only when she and her belonging arrived on the doorstep of someone she had never met did the extent of her psychosis become apparent.

Louis Theroux went into maternal psychiatric ward and during filming a woman with PPD was admitted.
She was to the untrained eye, completely rational. She thought the reason they were there was because her husband was the one struggling.
Channel 4 also done a documentary on it that is worth a watch

https://youtube.com/shorts/YFpUsGO8adU?is=0MJ5eZaD3vsYvgeq

Agree, people seem to think "psychosis" means "like the psycho film".

The person absolutely can look rational and be able to plan and carry out things. Does not mean they are sane. Does NOT mean they realise what they are doing is (morally) wrong. They think they're saving their child from demons or whatever.

I would vote not guilty by reason of insanity.

I know the prosecution doesn't have to PROVE motive but what on earth do they think the motive was?! There's no evidence of anything other than a loving mother, up to the day in question. No sign she enjoyed hurting her children or anything. And given she tried to kill herself, it's not like her aim was "childfree life".