RERUN: Before Lindsay Clancy, there was Latarsha Sanders.
About this episode
The episode revisits the tragic case of Latarsha Sanders, exploring themes of justice and mental illness in the context of her murder trial.
What does justice mean when a mentally ill person takes a life? Before Lindsay Clancy killed her three children in Duxbury, there was another case. In 2018, a mother in Brockton, Latarsha Sanders, killed her two young sons while in the midst of a psychotic episode. But the tragedy didn’t end with their deaths. A dubious interrogation and a jury trial portraying Sanders as “evil” resulted in a first degree murder verdict. Boston Globe columnist Yvonne Abraham revisits the trial with an overflowing reporter’s notebook. She shares her findings with Say More’s Shirley Leung. Email us at saymore@globe.com. Read Yvonne’s 7-part series from the Boston Globe here. Read an update to the story here.
People in this episode
Host: Shirley Leung
Guest: Yvonne Abraham
Topics covered
- justice
- mental illness
- murder trial
- family tragedy
- psychotic episode
Keywords
- Latarsha Sanders
- Lindsay Clancy
- murder
- mental illness
- trial
- justice
- psychotic episode
Mentioned in this episode
Places: Duxbury, Brockton
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