Did Lindsay Clancy Talk Her Way Out Of That Hospital?

**Tony Brueski** (0:01)
This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke.

**Tony Brueski** (0:08)
Let's go on to the defense. Cora Clancy was named after the very first baby her mother ever delivered as a labor and delivery nurse. She was five years old when she died. Kevin Reddington walked into a Plymouth jury through the, walked the jury through the last five months of Lindsay Clancy's life. Every prescription, every hospital, every phone call where somebody told her to stay the course.
We're breaking down where this all goes from here. And we learned this yesterday too. I mean, again, this case is just, it's baffling to me. It is a prime example of someone who raised their hand and asked for help in every possible way. And, and the, the disease, the brain, whatever you want to call what was going on here, postpartum psychosis ultimately won. But this is a person who was asking and begging for help. And she tried to get it and it didn't work. By Thanksgiving, her parents actually moved up from Connecticut because she was rocking on the couch and banging her head into a pillow.
Again, the, the burden of proof is on the prosecution to prove that she was completely mentally in a good place. She's rocking and banging her head into her pillow, and her parents have to move to help take care of their adult daughter along with her husband. Reddington says Patrick went to a doctor and told them they were turning his wife into a zombie. The state's going to tell the jury that she looked fine on January 24th. Fine compared to what?

**Tony Brueski** (1:46)
Compared?

**Tony Brueski** (1:47)
What are we comparing her to? She's fine. This is totally normal, healthy behavior.
It's baffling. I mean, I don't understand how they're going to be arguing this.

**Robin Dreeke** (2:00)
You know, Bob hit it really well when he said Reddington is going to demonstrate what this context is. And that's why I feel really good about this. It's, you know, I'm sitting here catching myself, you know, obviously my own emotional hijacking going because I am compelled to lean towards her side of requiring more mental health care because of what she went through because yeah, the confirmation bias I had because of this is I think in there, although completely open. I can't wait to see what prosecution does. I'm glad they're up first. I'm glad we're going to see what their arguments are. I love taking them more information and data. But at the same time, though, here's where I feel really, really good. That context aspect of it. Patrick's given his context. Reddington knows the context after his opening statements and also hearing from the great Bob Mata, who I have so much respect for having listened to and I'll give his plug out for the John Wayne Gacy case. Holy cow, I'm almost done with the podcast on that. And just the work these defense lawyers, these great defense lawyers, and I'll have to carve out great defense lawyers do to put, as Bob says, to put in the work.
It's profound. It's humbling. It's inspiring, because at least in this case here, whatever the outcome is that the jury decides at the end of the day, I do have faith, I mean, also just one point of the opening statement that Kevin Reddington will give the jury the context they need to make the right decision. And that's what the judge was saying too. And that's what Reddington said too. I know you're going to make the right decision. This is a lot of burden on you. They're going to see really horrendous things.
People, I mean, I had to turn it off yesterday when Patrick started talking and they're bringing up photos already of describe your five-year-old. I'm like, oh my God, I can't watch this. This is rough stuff. But it's important stuff to bring the importance of mental health and what she went through here. And if ultimately the jury decides that it was a premeditated choice for some reason, then I feel good in knowing that they did all they could. As of right now, we'll see how it goes.

**Tony Brueski** (3:58)
Patrick testified that she told him about intrusive thoughts of hurting the children about two months before they died. The state's answer is that eight days before, she still felt fine enough to go skiing and leaving the two little ones at home with her. That's not really actually proof of much. It's proof nobody told him what he was living with and that he really couldn't quite identify.
You know, as much as a prosecution says, this is not a referendum on women's health and mental health, and it 1,000% is.