The TRUTH About Lindsay Clancy Others Won't Say

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Megyn Kelly discusses the significance of Lindsay Clancy's sleep issues and obsession with her children's sleep schedule, why not every woman should be a mother, the way the medical system failed Lindsay Clancy but that's not the end of the story, and more.
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AI GeneratedThe speaker discusses the tragic case of Lindsey Clancy, analyzing the intersection of mental health, parental suitability, and legal responsibility. While acknowledging the systemic failures of the medical and crisis support systems that failed to help her, the speaker argues that her calculated actions prior to the crime demonstrate a level of planning that suggests legal culpability.
She couldn't sleep. She was obsessed with his sleep schedule.
She was trying to put him on, um, you know, a sleep schedule. You let,
where you let the baby cry through the, the night to get him to sleep.
Now everybody's like, Oh, that's a cruel thing to do. Oh, you know what? I,
I did it with my kids literally one night. They cried. I didn't go get them.
It wasn't an hour long cry. It was like 20 minutes. They went back to sleep.
They were sleep trained after that. I was giving them the gift of sleep.
They all three of them to this day are great sleepers.
I think because we did that because when we gave them one night,
wait until they were a little older, you know, it wasn't right away,
but then they slept through the night on night two thereafter,
every night after they didn't need anybody else to get them back to sleep.
They learned to self soothe their three delightful, well-adjusted children.
So just stop with the armchair.
Everything has to be re examined because Lindsay Clancy tried something that
didn't work for her. I mean, this mother's fraught, she's full of nerves.
She's like, I just think you ever see super anxious kids and then you meet the
mom and you're like, okay,
I think there's a fair amount of that happening here where it's like if you're
some bundle of nerves, really, you should really give,
give it some serious thought before you reproduce because not only are you
passing on those genetics to a child,
but then you are the primary caregiver and if you are a bundle of nerves,
your kid is probably going to be a bundle of nerves too.
Whereas if you have a general relaxed countenance,
I don't know, an ability to deal with adversity in a way that is mature,
then you're, you're going to pass that onto your child.
Not everybody should be a parent. Like conservatives go too far.
When we just start shaming people out, it was like, well,
I don't want to have children. I just want to be footloose and fancy free.
Why are we shaming them for that? Well, I, I mean,
I've participated in this to some extent, not really, but a little bit.
And, uh, that's wrong. Not everybody should be a mother.
Not everybody should be a parent. Not everybody's cut out for it.
So she had the third child,
the fall of 2022 came around and she started to go downhill.
She couldn't get the baby on a sleep schedule and she couldn't get
Dawson to sleep or behave the middle child and
her sleep started to suffer. And this is, this is devastating. I mean,
ask any woman in menopause what it's like to operate on no sleep.
And I was like, it's rough.
So you can do with a lot of things, but sleep is not one of them.
And she started to go to medical providers and ask for help. And of course,
the woman she wound up in the care of had been done with her residency for
about two minutes. I mean, like literally,
and never saw her in person only examined her
via zoom. It's like, that's so fucked up. I'm all for telemedicine.
I really am. It's like, it can be great. Um,
when used to supplement actual in office appointments where there are hands
placed on you and actual exchanges where you look in the eye and you get
somebody's aura and you get their vibes, you get their body language.
You see if they're shaking, you're like all these things.
When somebody has an alcohol problem,
one of the things that starts to happen when they're not drinking is they shake.
How would you know that on telehealth? If they've got their hands down here,
can't see them. It's not like their ship, their shoulders are shaking.
It's the hands. That's the first tell.
If you've ever known anybody who's an alcoholic,
you know what I'm talking about or a drug addict.
What the telehealth is a supplement.
It's not a replacement or in office visits.
So I I'm not impressed with this. Dr. Taft at all,
who was the primary Tufts, I should say,
who is the primary psychiatrist who she went to see.
And of course the psychiatry field being what it is, the knee jerk reaction,
just as soon as your leg kicks when they hit it in the knee at the doctor's
office was to put her on an SSRI.
So she tried a couple of combinations, you know, the try the one,
the Zoloft all that doesn't work. Okay. Try the other one, the Prozac. Okay.
That doesn't work. Try this other one. Try that. And,
and Lindsey Clancy started seeking different doctors and different meds.
And that's not a great plan either because they're not coordinating and
things just went into a downward spiral.
And there's no question this woman wanted help.
I will say that for Lindsey Clancy.
And I think this is one of the reasons why so many people have such empathy for
her. She wanted help and she was jumping up and down, begging for it.
She told the husband, she told her mom, she told her mother-in-law,
she told these doctors who she was consulting with.
She called a suicide hotline twice and spoke about wanting to hurt herself.
But because she didn't quote have a plan, they said, we can't help you.
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There was testimony just yesterday with one of the prosecution's rebuttal
witnesses where Kevin Reddington asked,
what would that do to somebody who's suicidal to call the suicide hotline?
And be given the back of the hand, the stiff arm. No. Oh,
you don't have a plan. Okay. Bye. I get it. He's making good points.
That's insane.
The suicide hotline needs to have a come to Jesus moment about helping the
people who have gone to the trouble to tell you they want to kill themselves,
but haven't yet come up with a plan where they called too soon.
Like call me back when you've got the news. What the, that's crazy.
So I think all of us have empathy for her because this isn't somebody who just
started to go downhill and then kept it a secret and didn't tell anybody and
denied that she was having thoughts of harming herself or the children only to
then do it. And also with a boyfriend on the side who didn't like children,
right?
Like we've seen in some of these other infamous cases involving women who killed
their children. This isn't that she was begging for help.
And the medical system around her did a piss poor job of helping her.
They did. So that's why a lot of people say, how, how can we blame her?
These things came over her, you know, she was dealing with depression,
depression, insomnia, and so on. She did the right thing. She went to doctors,
she asked for help. They gave her a quote, help air quotes.
The medications made the problem worse or so it appeared.
And there's always an adjustment period when you go on these SSRIs, you know,
they got to figure out how to titrate it and how to ease you into it.
And if it's not the right drug reportedly, they only help like 30% of the people.
Like if you get Zoloft, 70% of the people are not gonna be helped by it.
And so there it's like this trial and error period while the person's suffering.
And if they just pull up stakes and they don't have one person running hurt on
their care, things can go South, you know,
cause then they go find another doctor and start a new.
And then that person doesn't the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is
doing. And before you know it, you're, you're really playing with fire.
But the bottom line is we don't in this society say, Oh, I'm, I'm sad.
She was dealing with a lot.
I guess she's not responsible for taking three lives that it's not a
question of whether you can feel for her because she was
troubled. She was troubled. She was troubled.
It's a question about whether legally when she committed this act,
she could understand what she was doing was wrong. And she did understand that.
She absolutely understood that.
That's why I believe the jury has a very real chance of
accepting the prosecution's argument that she sent her husband out
of the home.
She Googled the route to the restaurant.
She sent him to pick up food at, which was not their normal place.
And it was farther,
farther away from their house than the normal places that they would go.
And she had Googled the route earlier.
So she knew it would take longer. That, that is planning.
That looks like somebody who had murder on her mind and was planning how to get
rid of the husband. Cause the husband had been working from home.
The husband knew she was a powder keg,
though he had said that this was her best day, one of her best days. Um,
so he didn't see as warning sign that day,
but he did not leave Lindsay alone with the children for a ton of time,
though he had, he had let her alone with them.
The defense brought that out in testimony that there had been other times when
she'd spent hours and hours alone with the children. But in any event,
he was keeping a close eye from, from the sound of it. So she,
I think recognized she needed to send him out.
She sent him to CVS for a children's stool softener and then to go
pick up the food.
And she knew the route because she had Googled it and chose a restaurant farther
away.
Then he left and he called her.
He left right after five and he called her at
around five 33. He was gone like from five Oh nine to six,
just after six. And it was in that hour. She,
she killed the children and tried to take her own life.
And he called her up and she missed the call. But within seconds,
she returned the call. They spoke for 14 seconds.
He said she sounded distracted. Like she was busy. Like she,
he thought she was maybe giving the children a bath and had a
brief exchange about the medicine hung up. And when,
by the time he got home, his children were dead.
So it appears by all intents and purposes that she was either in the midst of
killing those children at five 33 or had just killed the children. I mean,
she understood to keep it a secret.
She understood not to tell that he might get home to stop her.
And she didn't want that.
It wasn't consistent with her plan of sending him out so she could get it done.
And then she went upstairs and threw herself out the window.
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