The trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three young children before attempting to take her own life, has become the latest obsession of a vast online community of women who have consumed so much true crime that they no longer seem capable of encountering a horrifying story without searching for the secret truth underneath it. To these TikTok detectives, Clancy is another puzzle to be solved by women who have trained themselves to believe that every murder contains a conspiracy, every husband is potentially hiding something, and every apparent fact might be the clue that blows the whole thing open.
Across the internet, women are coming out of the woodwork to share “their truths” about what happened in the Clancy house that tragic day in 2023. Actress Lisa Rinna is the most famous example, boldly announcing online that she and her therapist had cracked the case: Patrick Clancy had murdered his own children and framed his wife. Never mind that Lindsay Clancy’s own defense does not contest that she killed them; her attorneys argue that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and was therefore not criminally responsible for her actions.
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