Lindsay Clancy's Jury Couldn't Decide
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The episode discusses the mistrial of Lindsay Clancy, a mother charged with the murders of her three children, and the implications of mental health in such cases.
Type "another Lindsay Clancy" into a search bar and watch how fast it autocompletes. That phrase now follows every headline about a mother and dead children — and it might be doing more damage than the case that inspired it. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, was on trial for the January 24, 2023 killings of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 7 months, allegedly strangled with exercise resistance bands inside the family's home. She's charged with three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, and has pleaded not guilty. Her attorney's insanity defense leaned on documented postpartum psychosis and, reportedly, psychiatric overmedication — a hospital that allegedly saw the warning signs and didn't act. Clancy survived a suicide attempt after the killings and has been paralyzed from the waist down since. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out running errands when it happened. After five weeks, eighty-plus witnesses, and three hundred exhibits, the jury told the judge three times they couldn't agree. Her attorney tried to remove a holdout juror; the state's highest court said no. The judge declared a mistrial. Here's where it gets bigger than one case. Andrea Yates was the…
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