While I personally believe she did do it (and he did not), the way they handled this case is indeed terrifying. This is not how the justice system is supposed to function in order to secure a verdict against a person.
What if you’re wrong?
When the headlines first broke about Lindsay Clancy, I didn't plan to watch. As much as I distrust legacy media, a headline of that magnitude makes you think - they must have definitive proof. The reality is, they didn’t and after 3 1/2 years they still don’t. They don't have proof of who did it and they don't have proof of when these horrific crimes were committed.
The state chose a conclusion that night and in less than 24 hours, while Lindsay lay unconscious in a hospital bed, they charged her with a triple homicide because Patrick said it happened during the 37 minutes he was not home. They have since spent three and a half years trying to force the evidence to fit a narrative spun on night one.
The media sold you a story, but the math and science completely shatter it. Patrick’s errands are meaningless until they can provide a scientifically based estimated time of death for the children. You cannot have an alibi when the state doesn't even know the times of death. Thus, his errands are just errands and do not clear him.
Critics will immediately scream, “But she confessed!” No, she didn't. Legally, she entered a plea of Not Guilty. The reality is her track seems predetermined which should terrify everyone.
For reasons we don’t understand, her defense attorney chose an insanity path after she was entirely isolated from her family for two weeks. Think about the math here: a woman with no prior psychiatric history goes to a doctor for postpartum anxiety, is placed on thirteen different drugs in four months, and is suddenly labeled insane. Any cognitive break would be an acute, chemically induced toxicity from that pharmaceutical conveyor belt. It would not be an inherent defect.
By rushing onto an insanity track before the state's forensics were even completed, the defense conceded the physical acts from the beginning. It was a legal strategy that allowed the DA to bypass critical pieces of physical evidence. Lindsay never took the stand to state she committed those acts.
Under any standard triple homicide protocol, this investigation should still be wide open. Both parents are still suspects.
Shame on the DA and shame on the media for lying to the public for 3 1/2 years. The public accepted your headlines. They never imagined you would completely manipulate the facts and manufacture something this horrific.
If you watch this upcoming 60 Minutes interview and accept an emotional performance as a substitute for real forensic answers, you are allowing yourself to continue to be manipulated.
When we allow emotional headlines to manufacture a reality without actual physical data, we are permitting a broken system to shield the truth and potentially hold the wrong person responsible.
We have to go back to day one, look at the actual handling of this investigation, and demand the truth. Anything less is a betrayal to the Clancy children and a betrayal to yourself.