{"id":2652965,"date":"2026-09-01T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woman-taking-a-page-out-lindsay-clancys-book-in-eerily-similar-case\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T10:29:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:29:27","slug":"woman-taking-a-page-out-lindsay-clancys-book-in-eerily-similar-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woman-taking-a-page-out-lindsay-clancys-book-in-eerily-similar-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Taking a Page Out Lindsay Clancy\u2019s Book in \u2018Eerily Similar&#8217; Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwoman-taking-a-page-out-lindsay-clancys-book-in-eerily-similar-case%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2652965&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The content discusses the case of Andrea Faust, a mother facing murder and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bail-fund-praised-by-kamala-harris-has-twice-freed-the-same-rioter-he-was-just-charged-again\/\" title=\"Bail Fund Praised By Kamala Harris Has Twice Freed The Same Rioter. He Was Just Charged Again.\">attempted murder charges<\/a> after killing her three-year-old and attempting to kill her two-year-old. Her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/johnny-depp-to-be-called-back-to-stand-today-as-explosive-trial-winds-down-report\/\" title=\"Johnny Depp To Be Called Back To Stand Today As Explosive ... Winds Down: Report\">legal team plans<\/a> to use an insanity defense based on postpartum psychosis,paralleling the Lindsay Clancy case. Faust had attempted suicide and exhibited signs of severe mental health struggles prior to the incident. Her attorneys argue she was unable to distinguish right from wrong due to her mental state and will plead not guilty by reason of insanity and diminished capacity. The article compares the two cases, noting similarities in the mothers&#8217; mental health issues and the legal debates surrounding postpartum psychosis as a defense. It highlights differences in the legal standards between North Carolina and Massachusetts, with the former having a more stringent requirement for insanity claims. The piece also critiques how cases like Clancy&#8217;s have become polarizing, turning into broader debates about motherhood, mental health, and morality, while suggesting that societal perceptions may influence legal outcomes and public discourse.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>For those of us who\u2019ve been forced into following the Lindsay Clancy trial, the question didn\u2019t seem to be <em>if<\/em> the mother\u2019s case would present a moral contagion, but <em>when <\/em>the contagion would hit.<\/p>\n<p>The answer apparently is, sooner than we would have thought.<\/p>\n<p>In Durham County Superior Court in North Carolina, attorneys for a 41-year-old mother who killed her child informed the court they intend to use an insanity plea based on \u201cpostpartum psychosis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And, in a statement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/local\/durham-mother-murder-son-insanity-august-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL-TV<\/a>, the attorney for the mother drew specific parallels between her client\u2019s case and that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/lindsay-clancy-trial-unexpectedly-halted-judge-meets-juror-individually\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">of Clancy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Andrea Faust faces murder and attempted murder charges after she killed her 3-year-old and tried to kill her 2-year-old. She was found incapable of proceeding to trial after two suicide attempts and evidence she was planning another behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is evident that she is a danger to herself and requires immediate and intensive psychiatric attention,\u201d a court document <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/local\/durham-mother-found-incapable-to-proceed-murder-attempted-murder-march-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read<\/a>. \u201cFurther evaluation is also necessary in order to determine her capacity to proceed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This doesn\u2019t mean that she won\u2019t go to trial. It just means that she needs to be brought into a state of mind where she can proceed with her own defense.<\/p>\n<p>However, when the case does happen, her attorneys say she\u2019ll plead not guilty by reason of insanity and diminished capacity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI suspected this would be a postpartum psychosis case from reading the headlines and, after my first meeting with my client, I knew this was a Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity [NGRI] psychosis case,\u201d Faust\u2019s attorney, Nicole Galinsky, said in a statement to WRAL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefense expert Adrienne Saxton has already found that Andrea was incapable of distinguishing right from wrong in relation to [the incident].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Really? Sounds suspiciously like someone else in the news getting a lot of unearned support at the moment. In case you needed a mallet over the head to get the point, Galinsky was ready to rhetorically supply it. From her statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Andrea and [Lindsay Clancy\u2019s] cases are eerily similar, though not entirely the same. Both women were known to be loving, doting, responsible mothers who were worried about and caring for their children up until the very-second they decided to kill them. Both women were reaching out to their own mothers to come help them because they both recognized that they were having \u201chorrible\u201d (intrusive) thoughts and both, at some point, did not feel safe around their children. Both were beginning to have auditory hallucinations which they were doing everything in their power to ignore or make go away (including seeking out psychiatric help, being prescribed medication, etc.). Both were psychiatrically hospitalized before the killings happened. Neither woman did this out of the blue. Both were struggling enormously with their mental health. But, like most women and almost-all moms, they were just trying to get through each day, care for their children, be a good mom\/wife\/employee. Both were seeking help from doctors who weren\u2019t really taking their concerns seriously.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/judge-shuts-lindsay-clancys-legal-teams-push-mistrial-religion-comes-play\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The jury in the Clancy case<\/a> is still deliberating over whether the mother of three, who killed her children in January 2023 by strangling them with exercise bands, is guilty of murder or not guilty by reason of insanity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/defense-claims-lindsay-clancy-never-anything-wrong-life-closing-argument\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The defense says<\/a> that Clancy was suffering from postpartum psychosis and was prescribed a cocktail of medication that didn\u2019t make her symptoms better. The prosecution has countered by arguing that the amount of planning that went into the murders was too elaborate for someone incapacitated by insanity.<\/p>\n<p>Clancy often didn\u2019t take her medication as prescribed, and her defense of \u201cpostpartum psychosis\u201d has serious evidentiary issues inasmuch as her account of how it manifested <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/crime\/prosecution-expert-challenges-lindsay-clancy-account-hallucinated-voice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">differs wildly<\/a> from how the disease is known to manifest.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the two cases definitely will differ, legally speaking, in the tenability of the defense. Part of the reason the Clancy trial may end in acquittal is that Massachusetts\u2019 insanity plea rules are unusually lenient, while North Carolina\u2019s very much are not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.findlaw.com\/criminal\/criminal-procedure\/the-insanity-defense-among-the-states.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In Massachusetts<\/a>, the burden of proof falls on the prosecution to either <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/doc\/9200-lack-of-criminal-responsibility\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convince the jury<\/a> the defendant wasn\u2019t mentally ill or, while mentally ill, \u201cnonetheless retained the substantial capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness or criminality of their conduct and to conform their conduct to the requirements of the law.\u201d This is known as the American Law Institute Model Penal Code standard, which was developed in the 1960s and adopted by many states, but fell out of favor after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/judge-grants-unconditional-release-man-shot-ronald-reagan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Hinckley<\/a>, the man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan, was found not guilty by reason of insanity because of its definition of insanity, as a PBS Frontline <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/shows\/crime\/trial\/history.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">primer<\/a> on the history of the insanity defense notes.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina, meanwhile, puts the burden of proof on the defendant and follows the older \u201cM\u2019Naughten rule,\u201d where a defendant must either not have the cognitive capacity to know right from wrong or have an \u201cirresistible impulse\u201d to commit the crime due to a provable mental defect.<\/p>\n<p>This is a much higher bar to clear \u2014 and part of the reason why the Clancy case originally got attention, due to the perfect storm of the nature of the crime, the state\u2019s low bar for determining criminal insanity, and the potential that, due to the transient nature of postpartum psychosis and Clancy\u2019s paralysis from her own suicide attempt, she could effectively be a free woman quite soon despite killing three children.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Clancy case has morphed into something more than just a morbidly sensational case meeting bad progressive lawmaking. Everyone from <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >conspiracy-prone wine mommy true-crime podcast addicts<\/a> to homicidal feminist grievance hustlers has latched onto Clancy\u2019s cause like remoras to a shark.<\/p>\n<p>Ask them about the Model Penal Code rule versus the M\u2019Naughten rule and their faces will go blanker than Tara Reid\u2019s answer sheet on an MIT physics exam. Ask them why Lindsay Clancy didn\u2019t do it and they\u2019ll talk your ear off about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hollywood-actress-delivers-unhinged-lindsay-clancy-conspiracy-theory-heard-yet-women-dont-strangle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">162 different ways Patrick Clancy <em>really<\/em> committed the crime<\/a> or how Clancy snapped due to the \u201cemotional labor\u201d forced upon her due to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gofundme-lindsay-clancy-family-skyrockets-clancys-mom-reveals-daughter-begged-sleep-night\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">patriarchal structures<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clancy\u2019s case has morphed from a referendum on the rule of law to one on the nature of motherhood, and whether children are disposable. A certain segment of the population is telling us, loud and clear, that human life is now expendable when they\u2019re <em>outside<\/em> the womb, not just <em>inside<\/em> it, when they become an annoyance.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and it\u2019s Patrick\u2019s fault, anyway. They heard it all on pods like \u201cWho Done It? (Spoiler: It Was the Husband\u2026 Probably)\u201d and \u201cCrime Junkie: Personality Disorder-o-Rama.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Clancy jury is currently about to enter its fourth day of deliberations without a verdict. If the verdict <em>does<\/em> end up reflecting those twisted perceptions, differences in burden of proof and insanity standards might not matter much anymore, and the moral contagion can only spread from there. 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