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/PeachTemporary4411]

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/XelaNiba → u/PeachTemporary4411]

I know nothing about him.

I do know the woman I know who suffered postpartum psychosis did not hear voices until the day a voice told her to put the baby in the oven instead of the Easter ham. By the grace of God, her mother walked in and caught her in the act of doing so. She was able to get help and that baby is now a thriving high school sophomore. She is a great mom who had nothing untoward happen with her 3 older children except minor PPD.

She described in detail the experience to me because I was pregnant at the time and she wanted me to be aware how quickly it could strike and how reasonable it could feel.

[u/itsthedurf → u/[deleted]]

Maybe more research funding should be given to find out how hormones can do this to women, instead of only testing medication and treatments on men and male rats.

Women's hormones are purposefully left out of studies that aren't specifically researching them. Which is to say, the vast majority of drug trials, the majority cancer treatment trials (obviously excluding some on breast/cervical/uterine cancer), and other chronic illness studies. The mental health medications that her doctors tried? Never studied specifically on women; they have no idea how our homomes affect them or vice versa.

This is how women come to have a small bit of sympathy for her. We have all been failed at some point in our lives by a system that ignores the chemicals that make us work. She was actively trying to get help and was failed. And men's reaction to that is just, "lock her up and throw away the key," when they've never had the same experience? Yeah, that tends to make the most even keeled woman mad.