Before January 24, 2023, Lindsay Clancy had done everything a struggling mother is supposed to do. She sought treatment. She called hotlines. She admitted herself to hospitals. She filled every prescription. The defense argues the system that was supposed to save her chemically destabilized her instead. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott sits Read more…
Lindsay Clancy is on trial for the murders of her three children in Duxbury, Massachusetts. Her defense concedes she killed them. They argue she was in the grip of postpartum psychosis and could not appreciate the wrongfulness of her actions. The prosecution says her behavior that day proves intent. Psychotherapist Read more…
The DA informed Nolan Wells’ family that the case will go before a grand jury. The internet heard “criminal charges.” The DA’s office meant something else entirely — a procedural checkpoint Jackson County applies to any death that remains unexplained. One of those readings made national news. The other disappeared. Read more…
In the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, the prosecution wants the jury to know what she did for a living — and to draw a very specific conclusion from it. She was a labor and delivery nurse. The Commonwealth’s argument is that a woman with that training knew how the mental Read more…
The pattern matters more than any single ruling. In eleven days, the prosecution in the Lindsay Clancy trial made three moves that all point the same direction: narrowing who gets to explain her mind to the jury. On July 9, prosecutors dropped all three strangulation charges. They called them redundant, Read more…
The Lindsay Clancy verdict has two possible outcomes, and neither one of them ends with her going home. Most people following this trial do not realize that. A finding of lack of criminal responsibility in Massachusetts leads toward commitment in a state psychiatric hospital, with reviews to determine whether release Read more…
In 2015, a statement went out under Josh Duggar’s name that admitted he’d been living a double life, admitted he’d been unfaithful, and admitted in his own words that he had “acted inexcusably” and “hurt others.” It ended his television show. It ended his public career. The entire country read Read more…
The Lindsay Clancy insanity defense has a problem, and it is not the evidence — it is who a Massachusetts judge will and will not let into the courtroom. Kevin Reddington’s plan was to have women who have survived postpartum psychosis describe it to the jury themselves. Real people, real Read more…
The Lindsay Clancy murder trial is underway in Plymouth Superior Court, and the Commonwealth’s most damaging piece of evidence may be something she wrote herself. Prosecutors have told the court that months before her three children died, Lindsay Clancy left a note on her phone about her two older kids. Read more…
Between September 2022 and January 2023, Lindsay Clancy was prescribed at least nine psychiatric medications by providers who diagnosed her with anxiety and depression. According to both civil lawsuits filed in her case, what she was actually experiencing was something entirely different — auditory hallucinations, command voices, and a psychiatric Read more…