Defending a child murderer. WTF. 🤦♂️
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Just saying she was mentally ill is the understatement of the century. The framing of this headline sickens me.
She was in a full on manic episode, desperately trying to get help, and everyone around her failed her.
Tl;Dr: This guy watches a brain-damaging amount of TikTok and believes in baseless conspiracy theories.
Most of what just got regurgitated here is complete horseshit. Patrick Clancy has never once been accused of killing these kids. True crime weirdos spread nonsense about anything that trends for views, and the then stupid people take the bait.
It's shameful how many upvotes this comment has. This is brazen misinformation.
I know that this case elicits a lot of emotion from people, it's no excuse to spread harmful misinformation.
EDIT: Honestly, this comment is such bullshit it needs a point-by-point breakdown. You should be ashamed for having posted this.
Virtually every claim in this theory originated on TikTok/unverified true-crime forums and directly contradicts the official court filings, surveillance footage, 911 audio, and statements from both the prosecution and Lindsay Clancy's own defense attorney.
Here is a fact-check of you claims:
"Guy keeps changing his story every time he gets asked about it... Even the prosecutors were caught on hot mic saying to each other 'He didn't do this did he?'"
- The Reality: Patrick Clancy’s timeline has remained consistent from the day of the incident. The "hot mic" claim is an entirely fabricated rumor with zero record in official court transcripts, press conferences, or verified audio logs.
"Her ex claimed he talked to her on the phone... But at the time of the 14 second long call, she had already gone out the window, was paralyzed and incapable of speaking at all."
- The Reality: The brief phone call took place at 5:34 PM while Patrick was inside the Duxbury CVS asking a pharmacist about Miralax for their daughter. Lindsay answered the phone normally. Patrick did not return home until 6:09 PM, when he found her in the backyard after she had jumped. She was not outside or injured when they spoke on the phone.
"The kids had also been tied up using a sailor's knot, by someone who was left handed. Interestingly, Lindsay is right handed... But her ex is left handed, and is an amateur sailor."
- The Reality: The children were not tied up with knots. According to court records and the Plymouth County District Attorney's arraignment statements, the children were strangled using exercise resistance bands. The "sailor's knot" detail is pure internet fiction.
"1 minute after her apple watch read her heart rate at 57 bpm, her ex sent a work email from his laptop located in the basement... Before that came out, he had lied and said their cameras didn't work because their wifi was down..."
- The Reality: None of this exists in the evidentiary record. Patrick’s movements between 5:15 PM and 6:09 PM are corroborated by store security footage, time-stamped register receipts, and GPS data. There are no forensic reports or filings citing a basement work email or selective Apple Watch data during that window.
"On top of that, there is footage of him in two different stores shortly after... he is in a completely different outfit in each place... The guy got remarried like 3 months after this all happened"
- The Reality:
- Surveillance footage from both CVS and the restaurant (3V's Village Restaurant in Plymouth) showed him wearing the exact same winter jacket and clothing.
- Patrick Clancy has not remarried. He has largely stayed out of the public eye aside from running the 2024 Boston Marathon to raise money for the Boston Children's Hospital's Clancy Family Foundation.
"I think he drugged Lindsay, tossed her out the window, killed the kids, and then left..."
- The Reality: Lindsay Clancy’s own defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, has never argued that someone else killed the children or that Patrick was involved. The defense's official legal strategy is centered on involuntary intoxication and postpartum psychosis, arguing that Lindsay's severe mental illness and medication regimen rendered her legally insane at the time of the acts.
Inventing conspiracy theories that accuse a grieving father of murdering his own children runs completely counter to all physical evidence, video surveillance, phone records, and both legal teams' filings. You just can't wrap your head around complex postpartum mental illnesses, and would rather believe anything but that a loving mother killed her kids in a psychotic state.
It’s fucking sad that you have to do this honestly. We are fucked lol truth is now opinion.
If nothing else, that's reasonable doubt.
Being utterly unfamiliar with this case up until my rushed reading of 10 mins ago, and operating under the assumption that everything you've said is 100% factual reporting:
Holy. Fucking. Shit.
What!? That isn't smoke pointing to a fire, it's a goddamn molten slag cast in the shape of a man gleefully setting fire to a previous life as he dances over to a new fire pit.
That shit is too on the nose that I fully expect the true crime drama episode in 10 years about husband's exploits to come with a warning about the gullibility of the system and technology.
Just enough digital trail to "absolve" him, conveniently, but only if you pick and choose where and when to accept the trail is on his side?
This is absolutely looking like the classic "sociopathic piece of skin husband has idealized mental picture of life shattered by difficult reality and decides to dispense with his 'property' before moving on" murder pattern.
operating under the assumption that everything you've said is 100% factual reporting
Record scratch
Everything they just said is unsubstantiated bullshit conjured up by the TikTok true crime community. You are best served to forget everything you just read and read the Wikipedia page instead.
Well this changes everything, and I am just now learning about this case. But I hope this comes to light and he gets what's coming to him.
Like goddammit is not marrying someone else THREE MONTHS AFTER HIS KIDS DIED! That huge red flag. But if he buddy with the cops that surprised he getting away with it.
None of what you just read is true. True crime influencers are making shit up en masse about this case.
You should read more from a reputable source instead of believing what randos tell you online.
I wouldn't recommend automatically believing everything you read on the Internet.
The courts aren't trying to decide whether or not she did it, or if her husband did it. They are decoding whether or not her mental state makes her criminally liable. She already admitted that she did it. There isn't any doubt there.
You clearly "did your own research on YouTube". It shows in how to you don't know what you're talking about, and are regurgitating influencer misinformation instead of talking about the actual facts of the case.
She already admitted that she did it. There isn’t any doubt there
There are many instances of clearly mentally ill people admitting to crimes they didn't commit.
“She loves them deeply,” Cavanaugh said. “She carries immense grief.”
This is reminiscent of the guy who killed his kid by leaving him in a hot car and then killed himself due to grief. She will never escape the memory of what she did because the trial will highlight the entire thing. The media has painted her as a monster. Peace will never be in her life again as she has to live with what she did, regardless of the trial outcome. She will try suicide again.
I mean, it's a little different. In this case she is demonstrably mentally ill with postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder. Being committed is probably the best thing that can happen to her, so that hopefully she can get treatment. She literally was not sane when she did it and wasn't mentally capable of understanding her actions during it.
In the father's case, the dude was a neglectful layabout who routinely left the kids in the car so he could play fuckin video games without them annoying him. His wife had begged him repeatedly to stop leaving them in the car.
From what I've heard, evidence has come out that suggests she might not have done it after all. Starting to look like there's a chance the husband did it and set her up to take the fall.
Starting to look like there's a chance the husband did it and set her up to take the fall.
Do you have a reputable source for this statement?
Has a respected source like the Guardian or the Boston Globe (this case is in Massachusetts, no?) done any reporting on this given the severity of the implications? Because if he did it, then his testimony is obviously incorrect, and if he didn’t do it, then he was a first hand? witness and first hand accounts have traditionally been seen as unreliable.
It's time for our regularly scheduled ragebait distraction murder trial! Whose side will you enter the argument for this time?
When too much support for women is maybe a bad thing.
Everyone sucks here
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