Americans watching the Lindsay Clancy murder trial have spun an alternate reality where an innocent woman was framed by her husband — a baseless theory that says more about the press and the public's total distrust of institutions than it does about the case itself. The stake is straightforward: when the gatekeepers lie long enough, people stop believing them and start building their own narratives, however wild, from the rubble.
Clancy, a Massachusetts nurse, strangled her three children — Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months — in the basement of the family's Duxbury home on January 24, 2023. She then attempted suicide, ingesting medication, slashing her wrists and neck, and throwing herself from a second-story window. She survived, paralyzed from the sternum down. Nobody disputes she killed her children — not even Clancy herself. Her defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, told jurors at trial:
