Lindsay Clancy Admits to Strangling Her Children, Self-Harm, and Suicide Attempts
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Clancy admits she strangled her three children, then cut her own throat and neck and jumped from a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed. Her defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, argues that Clancy is not guilty of murder because she was experiencing a psychotic break induced by postpartum psychiatric disease aggravated by overmedication.
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Washington TimesThe testimony of Dr. Paul Zeizel is the strongest evidence yet to support the defense contentions that Clancy should not be held legally responsible for murder because she has bipolar disorder and was in the grip of a rare mental illness called postpartum psychosis when she killed her three children before trying to kill herself. Zeizel began seeing Clancy as a patient at a hospital after the deaths.
New York PostReddington wants a jury to find Clancy not criminally responsible for the murders on the grounds she was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis worsened by powerful psychiatric medications prescribed to her by doctors.
BBC NewsClancy is not disputing that she carried out the killings, but has pleaded not guilty to murder charges. Her defence argues that Clancy was suffering from postpartum psychosis when she took her children's lives.
The Daily Wire“I stand with Lindsay. I could have been you.” That last claim is especially popular among women who support Lindsay Clancy. They’re all saying that, just like Clancy, they could see themselves doctor-shopping for a dozen different psych meds, then brutally murdering their own children. A licensed therapist made the same claim on camera, saying, “Many of us know that we could have been only one step away from [murdering our children].”
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988.
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USA TodayThis article discusses suicide and suicidal ideation. If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org.
New York PostIf you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255) or text Crisis Text Line at 741741.
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If convicted of murder, Clancy faces life in prison without parole. If found not guilty because of a lack of criminal responsibility, she would be committed to a state mental health facility.
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USA TodayWhat happens if Lindsay Clancy is found not criminally responsible? Clancy is facing three counts of first-degree murder, which in Massachusetts carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.
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Not too long ago, for example, it would’ve been unthinkable for millions of women to spend their free time rallying to the defense of a psychotic mother like Lindsay Clancy, who allegedly murdered her own children, one by one, after sending her husband away on an errand. It would’ve been unthinkable for women to send nearly a million dollars to the mother’s family via a GoFundMe, as a reward for the horrific crime she had committed.
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Washington TimesA GoFundMe set up for the parents of Massachusetts mother-turned-killer Lindsay Clancy has raised nearly $1 million as organizers say the couple has spent their life savings to help her on trial.
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The GoFundMe page reads: The Musgrove Family Fund is for the two people who have remained at her side through every step of what followed: her parents, Mike and Paula Musgrove. For more than three years, Mike and Paula have shown up for Lindsay. … The case will eventually reach its conclusion. Whatever that outcome is, Mike and Paula will still have to pick up the pieces of the lives they have put on hold to be there for their daughter. They should not have to face that future without the financial foundation they spent decades building.
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Washington Times“Nothing about this fund asks anyone to share their view of Lindsay or the criminal case. It asks donors to recognize the extraordinary financial burden her parents have carried simply by continuing to be present,” organizers wrote. “The purpose of this fund is to help Mike and Paula rebuild the financial stability they have sacrificed over these past three years.”
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01 New York Post Lindsay Clancy has “bad days and worse days” at the hospital where she is monitored round-the-clock to ensure she doesn’t kill herself, a psychologist testified Wednesday.
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02 RealClearPolitics Those who defend Lindsay Clancy want someone else—the husband, or the medical system—to be responsible. It's not that simple, writes Kat Rosenfield. Read Full Article ⟶
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03 USA Today The question at the heart of a closely watched Massachusetts murder trial is not whether a mother killed her three young children, but whether mental illness means she can't be held legally responsible.
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04 BBC News Prosecutors, meanwhile, alleged she made a calculated decision to intentionally kill her children - Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, who was eight months.
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06 The Daily Wire Watch: Retards are hanging out their windows to try to prove Lindsay Clancy is innocent despite the fact she has already admitted to murdering her children.
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07 Washington Times But just because she was in a psychotic state, Zeizel said, that didn’t mean she couldn’t do “everyday tasks of living” like driving and searching the internet, a reference to the fact that the day of the killings she took her daughter to the doctor, played with the children in the snow and searched online for a pharmacy and a restaurant.
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