Miranda Devine: Lindsay Clancy’s sick fans are just normalizing the horror of a mother killing her three children

Nypost · 🇮🇷 public Iran · Aug 23, 2026 · 1142 words · By Miranda Devine

Gender Conflict Moral Decay Political polarization

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Miranda Devine: Lindsay Clancy’s sick fans are just normalizing the horror of a mother killing her three children See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

The bizarre fandom around Lindsay Clancy is the latest example of a moral rot infecting a small cohort of conspiracy-minded, self-engrossed women.

Common ground

In a clear case of female empathy gone awry, they have transformed a Massachusetts nurse who strangled her three babies into the sole victim in this tragedy, while demonizing their poor father, Patrick.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Appeal to Anger: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 17 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham makes that point to the jury by wearing bows in her hair every day”

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Claim 2: “The five-week trial has been televised”

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While the trial is mentioned in several sources, the provided evidence for this specific claim includes irrelevant results (Uber, general Wikipedia entries) and does not explicitly confirm that the trial was 'televised' for five weeks.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kevin Reddington (born February 9, 1951) is a criminal defense attorney based in Brockton, Massachusetts, who has appeared in a number of high-profile cases. He received his law degree from Suffolk Un…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Reddington

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Postpartum psychosis (PPP), also known as puerperal psychosis or peripartum psychosis, involves the abrupt onset of psychotic symptoms shortly following childbirth, typically within two weeks of deliv…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postpartum_psychosis

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On January 24, 2023, Lindsay Clancy fatally strangled her three children—five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callan—at the family's home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, United St…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_the_Clancy_children

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Claim 3: “a Massachusetts nurse who strangled her three babies”

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Wikipedia and multiple web search results confirm that Lindsay Clancy, a Massachusetts resident, strangled her three children.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — William Francis Sullivan (born June 15, 1957) is an American jurist and lawyer. He is an associate justice for the Massachusetts Superior Court.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Sullivan

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Claim 4: “She is in a wheelchair because a suicide attempt left her paralyzed from the waist down”

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NY Post reports confirm she is paralyzed from the waist down following a suicide attempt (jumping).

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cross reference SUPPORTS — She was released Jan. 5 — two and a half weeks before the killings and her suicide attempt, which left her a paralyzed from the waist down.
https://nypost.com/2026/08/07/us-news/everything-we-know-abo…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Clancy’s retired mom and photographer dad have blown through their life savings to attend her court proceedings over the past two and a half years since she fatally strangled her three young kids and …
https://nypost.com/2026/08/17/us-news/lindsay-clancys-parent…

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Claim 5: “Patrick, 38”

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Claim 6: “Lisa Rinna... took to social media last week to allege: “Patrick’s the one who did it . . . Not Lindsay. Patrick did it.”

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Claim 7: “The murdered children, Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months”

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Multiple independent sources (NY Post, NBC Washington) and Wikipedia confirm the names and ages of the children: Cora (5), Dawson (3), and Callan (8 months).

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dancing with the Stars is an international television franchise based on the format of the British television series Strictly Come Dancing, itself a successor to the show Come Dancing (1950–1998). It …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., was attacked by a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump. Academic debate exists about whether to characterize the event as a co…
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Claim 8: “she methodically strangled, one by one, with exercise bands after sending Patrick out to pick up dinner and medications”

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Web search results and NY Post cross-references confirm the use of exercise bands and the detail regarding her husband Patrick being sent out for dinner and medications.

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web search NEUTRAL — Both Lindsay and her former husband, Patrick Clancy, filed civil lawsuits against her former healthcare providers, alleging that medical malpractice and negligence had contributed to the deaths of the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_the_Clancy_children

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web search NEUTRAL — Clancy calculated how long it would take her husband to pick up dinner, added a stop at CVS to his errand, and thereby created a window in which she would be alone with their three children long enoug…
https://nypost.com/2026/09/03/opinion/lindsay-clancy-case-is…

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web search NEUTRAL — Patrick Clancy has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against several of his wife Lindsay Clancy’s medical providers, alleging they negligently prescribed a rapid series of medications in the weeks before…
https://thenightly.com.au/world/lindsay-clancy-dad-claims-mu…

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Claim 9: “Lindsay, 36”

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Multiple NY Post reports and BBC News explicitly state that Lindsay Clancy is 36 years old.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — As the 36-year-old Massachusetts mom faces murder charges
https://nypost.com/2026/08/22/health/is-lindsay-clancy-reall…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Lindsay Clancy, 36, strangled her three young children with exercise bands in the basement of the family’s Duxbury, Mass., home in January 2023.
https://nypost.com/2026/08/17/us-news/lindsay-clancy-trial-a…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Clancy’s lawyers are claiming that the 36-year-old mom was in the throes of a postpartum psychosis fueled by an overload of prescription drugs when she killed her children in 2023.
https://nypost.com/2026/08/17/us-news/lindsay-clancy-cried-a…

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Claim 10: “Dawson first, then Cora and finally baby Callan, who was still alive when paramedics found him but died in the hospital”

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Claim 11: “claims she was “suffering from psychosis at the time.””

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Both NY Post and BBC News report that her lawyers claim she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Lawyers for Clancy... say she was experiencing postpartum psychosis at the time.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62emm4yp8go?at_medium=R…

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Claim 12: “He has since remarried”

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Claim 13: “Lindsay has pleaded not guilty to the 2023 murder of her children”

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CBS News and other reports confirm that Lindsay Clancy pleaded not guilty to the murder of her children.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Clancy is the seventh studio album by the American musical duo Twenty One Pilots, released on May 24, 2024, through Fueled by Ramen and Elektra Records. Titled after the protagonist introduced in thei…
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Claim 14: “hundreds dressed in pink and rallied for her outside the court last week”

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Multiple web search results confirm that hundreds of people dressed in pink rallied for her outside the court on August 20.

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web search NEUTRAL — Hundreds of people dressed in pink rallied outside a Massachusetts courthouse on Aug. 20 in support of Lindsay Clancy, who is standing trial on murder charges in the 2023 deaths of her three children.
https://www.tiktok.com/discover/wearing-pink-lindsay-clansy-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Hundreds of Lindsay Clancy supporters, many wearing pink clothing, gathered Thursday outside the courthouse where she is on trial in the killings of her three children. Many said they came to raise aw…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFGDcML098Y

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web search NEUTRAL — Pink-clad supporters of Lindsay Clancy gather for a vigil outside Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Aug. 20, 2026. Photo by USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect. Reddington told …
https://thoughtcatalog.com/jeremy-london/2026/08/hundreds-of…

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Claim 15: “Lindsay fans have raised almost $1 million in the name of her parents”

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TikTok and other web search results confirm that supporters raised over $1 million for her parents.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Locked On is a techno-thriller novel written by Tom Clancy and Mark Greaney released on December 13, 2011. A direct sequel to Dead or Alive (2010), it is Clancy's first of three collaborations with Gr…
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Claim 16: “Lindsay left them in the basement while she went upstairs to her bedroom, slit her wrists and throat and threw herself out the second-story window”

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Claim 17: “the cuts to Lindsay’s wrist and neck were superficial”

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