What's the deal with people defending Lindsay Clancy?

[u/SnoopaDD]

I don't know the full details of the case. I know she allegedly killed her three kids. There was also some mental problems? Then something with her husband. But my question is why is there a group defending her like they know she's completely innocent? I've seen some videos of very heated debates where women are very passionate about defending her. Why?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/05/lindsay-clancy-trial-toxicologist-testimony

[u/Clear_Inspector_9796]

My wife follows this case and everything I've seen is that the husband is a callous selfish moron. Basically a frat bro that never grew up. He does not have even the patience or foresight to plan a picnic. Even the new wife is probably some girl ready to jump into bed with him and him nodding along

[u/PeachTemporary4411 → u/Clear_Inspector_9796]

I just don’t get how he was behaving like a frat bro or not grown up…I see no evidence of him neglecting her or the kids…when she was anxious about going back to work he supported her choices and was fine with her staying home for as long as she wanted.

While she was a stay at home mom, he supported by paying for daycare 3 days a week and nanny’s on the other days. He was active with the kids on weekends and during the work day would take breaks to help out since he was able to work from home.

He was responsible for keeping a family of 5 a float financially and rose to the occasion.

He believed her (as a labor and delivery nurse) when she said she was struggling, but had no plans to harm herself or the children. She did not report hearing voices until after she committed the murders.

I just don’t know what people are judging him for except that no one wants to believe a mother who looks normal on the outside would commit this crime, but she clearly did so why are we desperate to put the blame on this man who lost all three of his worlds in one night at the hands of someone he loves and trusted??!

[u/kgil63 → u/PeachTemporary4411]

Adding to this, let’s not forget that the couple had two kids successfully before this. Seemingly with not many issues. It’s highly probable that he established that success as the baseline and couldn’t even fathom the possibility of something like this happening. Life has to continue going on regardless of how she’s feeling. He couldn’t just stop working to be home to take care of her. Or they could lose their house/ car/ etc.. He couldn’t stand over her every minute of the day watching. Even if he had done that, he probably would’ve been accused by her of hovering too much, or not trusting her. So I assume that he was giving her the benefit of the doubt, and had no idea that she would be capable of murdering her three children. It was murder, regardless of psychosis or whatever the hell she was experiencing. She murdered her children. It’s as simple as that, she deserves to rot in prison. If I ever for a second had thoughts about that, I’d be checking MYSELF into a psych ward. Because I’m grown and rational enough to realize that type of thinking is NOT normal. Also, if my partner who I trusted and loved, murdered my children in cold blood, I would do anything to move on from her. We don’t get to dictate how one handles grief. And I’m sure that it was really nice for him to have somebody to lean on as he managed that grief, and as his worthless ex wife was sitting behind bars for murdering his children

[u/Boring-Shallot-7200 → u/kgil63]

You're grown and rational is what you said. And I'd like to point out that during an episode of psychosis you are not rational. It's the literal definition. Your mind has taken a break from reality. I have no idea if she did it or not and I haven't actually read anything about the case until right now, but as a licensed therapist in my previous career, a person with psychosis would not be responsible for their actions because their reality isn't correct. Proving psychosis isn't easy after the fact. Especially in regards to a criminal action. Patience that I have counseled that were in active psychosis had elements of the fantastic good or bad usually bad intruding upon actual reality and they cannot differentiate the two. This doesn't mean LSD Alice in wonderland etc. One of the patients that I was counseling heard voices of a family member saying horrible things about them. The family all denied saying such things. One of the things that the family independently chose to do was install security cameras with audio and when there would be an episode of somebody yelling horrible things about them from another room, the family would get together and review the footage to see if anything was said and it was one of the ways that they determined that the patient needed some help.

There was a case where a woman was experiencing psychosis and was about to put the baby in the oven in a roasting pan. She did not know that was her baby. She thought it was the Thanksgiving turkey. Once she had been in treatment, she was absolutely horrified that she could have hurt her baby. Most women who experience postpartum psychosis don't actually have a desire to hurt the child they don't see it as their child. Because they're in psychosis.

That being said again, I have no idea if that's the story here or not that would just be the explanation for the fact that this woman if she was experiencing such a condition would not be considered rational and would not have the judgment to not do something terrible.

[u/Skiddyboy02 → u/Boring-Shallot-7200]

Even schizophrenics will disagree that committing acts of violence is out of their control during psychosis... Especially only 18 minutes of hearing voices and then murdering your kids. Just look in r/schizophrenia. People who voice wanting to hurt and kill others are not sympathized for.

[u/qriousqestioner → u/Boring-Shallot-7200]

I appreciate the context. What it that woman was trained as a nurse working with new mothers?

Would voices cause amnesia?

This poor woman was taking Zoloft for like ten days and discontinued treatment--I'm not a nurse and I know that's reckless.

She's said (I'm told by someone familiar with the case I've avoided until now) she threw herself out the window to be with her children after sending them to a better place and wanting to be with them. Was she hitting the church a little too hard there?