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Patrick Clancy Didn't Kill His Children, So Why Is the Internet Acting Like He Did?

The internet is divided about the harrowing case of Lindsay Clancy, the 35-year-old wife and mother who brutally murdered her three young children in her Duxbury, MA home in January 2023.

By Meredith Evans3 min read

She currently stands trial and has pleaded not guilty to three murder charges, but not because she didn’t kill her daughter Cora, 5, and two sons, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. She is pleading insanity. If convicted of first-degree murder, she could receive life imprisonment without parole. If found not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility, she would likely be committed to a secure psychiatric hospital rather than released.