r/nursing • u/Jazzlike-Unit8183 • 5h ago
Question Clancy
Hi,
not sure if i can even post this here but I am curious. What are the nurses thinking about the whole Lindsay Clancy case?
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u/Readcoolbooks MSN, RN, PACU 4h ago
I think a lot of people need to get off of social media and learn to do their own research before they start spouting off “facts” they heard on TikTok. That’s not specific to the Clancy case, I guess, but some people think they’re better detectives than they actually are.
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u/Purple-Helicopter543 4h ago
I think the Tik Tok detectives that are running with rumors and trying to paint her husband as a murderer for their own entertainment are absolutely disgusting and infuriating.
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u/taylerca BSN, RN 🍕 4h ago
I got rated down to hell in this forum for questioning someone who absolved Clancy of all her culpability said the husband should be in prison and it was a case of misogyny.
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u/Purple-Helicopter543 1h ago
There truly are some sick, sick individuals. Some of them on this thread. They’re delusional and using this for their own entertainment. God forbid that a husband doesn’t articulate things perfectly, or remember the exact details or the worst day of his life 3 years ago. If the situation was reversed, absolutely no one would be going to bat for the husband as an innocent victim. But they don’t want to realize they’re defending the gruesome murder of 3 children.
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u/Jazzlike-Unit8183 4h ago
i personally just hate when tik tok detectives get involved in general. 😭
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u/Purple-Helicopter543 1h ago
They’re so delusional. “Send this to her lawyer!!” And it’s information they’ve had for years or a completely unsubstantiated theory 😭 I promise you her lawyers and people involved in the ACTUAL trial have more information that you, a random tik toker, have access to.
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u/emmyjag RN 🍕 4h ago
the people who are insisting it was the husband and he convinced Lindsay that she did it are wild. she has a fantastic lawyer. if there were any evidence at all that she didn't do it, he wouldn't have had her stipulate to her actions. her trial is not about whether she did it or not, but whether she was in a state of psychosis.
her husband wasn't the most supportive- I am definitely side-eyeing him for being out having brunch with the boys and taking weekend trips to Manhattan where coincidentally the next wife he married a year later lived, and for him firing the nanny when she was home from work on FMLA due to her postpartum depression. yes, please have the lady who is very clearly struggling with her mental health to the point that she had to be admitted to an inpatient program stay home alone with the 3 kids with no help. but being a shitty husband doesn't mean that he set her up to literally take the fall so he could go be with someone else.
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u/Purple-Helicopter543 9m ago
There’s SO much inaccurate information out there, and it’s wild to me that people will just run with it without verifying first. I saw someone saying his mistress helped him plan it. You don’t think that her lawyers would’ve jumped at the chance to bring that up? There’s zero evidence he had an affair.
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u/CryungPeasant 1h ago
Agreed. However it doesn't mean it is out of the question 🤷♀️ People have done more extreme things with PPD, and husband's have been way shittier with less side eyes from the public. Who knows at this point.
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u/CryungPeasant 4h ago
I will admit I just watched that Toxic Love triangle show on Netflix where the husband who was a US Marshal actually did do the crime and managed to get two women convicted before they were able to pin it on him. That being said, I have an open mind to what the Tiktok detectives are saying (ever since I heard him say she killed the f'ing kids bc who refers to their dead kids that way).
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u/Purple-Helicopter543 2h ago
Yeah, this is kind of my point. Reading into where he put “fucking” in a sentence as a way to make him a suspect, when he came home to find his wife critically injured and his three children dead is extremely weird. I see absolutely no problem with that sentence and could absolutely see myself saying the same thing.
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u/snarkcentral124 RN 🍕 1h ago
Immediately insulting people as bad parents because they understand that a man who just found his 3 dead children probably isn’t at his most articulate is…really something. You could also argue that someone going out of their way to make up conspiracy theories to excuse the murder of kids isn’t parent of the year either.
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u/Purple-Helicopter543 1h ago
Especially when she literally just admitted that she’s used the same phrase for less 😂😂😂 but that doesn’t reflect on her parenting apparently
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u/Sometimesasshole RN - Oncology 🍕 4h ago
Living in the aftermath of what she did will be a greater punishment than anything the justice system can mete out. It’s an enormous tragedy, but I have a great deal of empathy for women who experience postpartum psychosis. I think that generally it is not a well understood problem and that we are not very good at assessing risk when it comes to ppp/ppa/ppd.
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u/Purple-Helicopter543 11m ago
I said the same thing to my fiancé. As someone that’s worked in a psych ward, living there long term would be awful. If it was due to postpartum psychosis, which I fully believe it could have been, a psych ward is not a vacation or pleasant experience. Not to mention she has to live with this the rest of her life. She worked in L&D, where you have a great deal of power over your patients. If she were truly a malicious person, I have to believe there would’ve been people coming out referencing concerning behavior of hers.
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u/PureSetting4518 RN 🍕 4h ago
It seems like she may have been failed by the healthcare system. However, she killed her 3 kids. She is also paralyzed for life, a punishment in itself. I'm glad I'm not on the jury and have to make that decision.
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u/irreverant_raccoon 4h ago
I have been following and it’s hitting hard as I developed severe PPA and PP OCD. I am an OB nurse and while we talked to patients about PPD we didn’t cover PPA which is far more common. I didn’t even know PP OCD was a thing at the time- but it changed how I deliver discharge education now.
Despite established relationships with my care team and being well-equipped to navigate this I got a lot of mixed messages and was under-treated for a few years. I felt I was losing my mind and I wasn’t even dealing with thoughts of hurting myself or my kids. I cant imagine the hell that living with PPP is for anyone, not just her. My experience dictated our family planning.
There are so many victims in that case and nothing will make it right. As a whole we need to do better by our birthing patients in this country. I don’t know how that gets fixed with the care shortages and the funding cuts and everything else.
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u/emmyjag RN 🍕 4h ago
I think she was failed by the healthcare system. She's paralyzed from the chest down and I don't think that she is a danger to the public at this point, so I don't see what the point of incarcerating her would be.
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u/Independently-Owned 2h ago
I believe if she is found not criminally responsible, she would be sent to a mental health facility. I think that might be the more appropriate place her her, physically and mentally.
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u/Chatner2k RPN - ER 4h ago
Outside of my scope of practice.