Why are people more sympathetic to Lindsay Clancy than Andrea Yates? (Child death mentioned)
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When emergency medical technicians arrived, Patrick went to look for his kids, and can be heard on the 911 call entering the home and the basement and then "screaming in agony and shock" as he found his children, prosecutors say. Cora and Callan were on the floor in the den area of the finished basement, and Dawson was alone on the floor in his father's home office. "Each child still had the exercise band used to strangle them tied around their necks when their father found them," prosecutors said. Patrick removed the bands and could be heard begging his children to breathe. He continued to scream uncontrollably, "She killed the kids."
this is just sick, i truly truly hope she rots |
Anonymous
The reason he asked her “what did you do” on finding her outside, and not “who did this?” or the equivalent is because he knew she was off. It’s not a question that supports the assessment that everything seemed normal on the day of. |
Anonymous
You don’t know why she did that. Maybe she was calculating how long she thought she’d be safe to be alone with them. |
Anonymous
There has to have been some sort of warning. The woman was a midwife! A labor and delivery nurse! |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
Untrue. Did you read the timeline. Everything was normal. He said "what did you do" because she had clearly jumped out a window when she was supposed to be watching them. That doesn't mean anything was abnormal prior to his leaving.. |
Anonymous
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She was completely calm and lucid. Below is from the link posted above.
Here is a detailed timeline of the events that followed, as described by prosecutors: 4:02 p.m.: Lindsay Clancy searched "kids Miralax," a product used to treat constipation, on her phone. 4:13 p.m.: She also searched for "takeout ThreeV," a restaurant in nearby Plymouth. Immediately after doing so, she used Apple Maps on her phone to determine how long it would take to drive from Duxbury to ThreeV Restaurant. 4:47 p.m.: After going to the CVS website, Lindsay called the drug store and asked if they had kids Miralax. The manager told her no but said they had other, similar medications. According to the manager, her voice did not sound slurred or impaired and it was a perfectly normal conversation. 4:53 p.m.: Lindsay texted her husband Patrick, who was working at his home office in the basement, and asked him if he wanted to do takeout from ThreeV Restaurant. "I didn't cook anything, it's been a long day," she wrote. Prosecutors said this was unusual because they usually got takeout closer to home, but it was a restaurant they had been to in the past. Patrick texted back "Yes," and Lindsay asked him to check the menu. 5:06 p.m.: Patrick texted his wife and asked her what she was going to order. She responded a Mediterranean Power Bowl and he then told her he wanted the Scallop and Pork Belly Risotto. 5:10 p.m.: Lindsay called ThreeV Restaurant and placed their order. The hostess said she noticed nothing out of the ordinary about the call, adding that she was able to understand the defendant. 5:15 p.m.: Patrick headed out the door to run the errands, and his wife texted him "Pedia-Lax liquid stool softener" a short time later. 5:32 p.m.: Surveillance video shows Patrick at CVS in the children's medicine aisle. 5:33 p.m.: Phone records show Patrick called his wife but she did not answer. 5:34 p.m.: Lindsay called her husband back, a call that lasted 14 seconds, telling him what medication she wanted. Prosecutors said Patrick said the call was "completely normal" but he later mentioned that it seemed like his wife was in the middle of something. 5:37 p.m.: Patrick makes his purchase at CVS and leaves. 5:54 p.m.: Surveillance footage shows Patrick picking up his takeout order at ThreeV Restaurant and leaving. 6:09 p.m.: After arriving home, prosecutors say Patrick did not see or hear his wife or their children, so he called Lindsay's cell phone looking for them. He went to their bedroom and found it locked. When he was able to get inside, he saw blood on the floor and an open window. His wife was on the ground outside the house, with wounds on her wrists and neck. She was conscious, and Patrick asked Lindsay, "What did you do?" She replied that she had tried to kill herself by jumping out of the window. During the ensuing 911 call, prosecutors say Patrick can be heard asking his wife where the kids are. She replied, "In the basement." When emergency medical technicians arrived, Patrick went to look for his kids, and can be heard on the 911 call entering the home and the basement and then "screaming in agony and shock" as he found his children, prosecutors say. Cora and Callan were on the floor in the den area of the finished basement, and Dawson was alone on the floor in his father's home office. "Each child still had the exercise band used to strangle them tied around their necks when their father found them," prosecutors said. Patrick removed the bands and could be heard begging his children to breathe. He continued to scream uncontrollably, "She killed the kids." |
Anonymous
How did he know she jumped out the window? |
Anonymous
I did read the timeline. It says he found her on the ground and that she was bleeding (and presumably already paralyzed). He had not yet been far enough into the house to find the children. If I came home to my house and found my husband laying in the snow on our lawn bleeding, I doubt I would immediately get to the conclusion that he had jumped out of a window to get there. But my husband is not currently suicidal. When he was suicidal, I would have gotten there faster, which is why I say the husband knew something was not right with her. |
Anonymous
If you watched the arraignment, he went into the house first. Couldn't find anyone, called her phone. Went upstairs, saw the broken glass and saw her on the ground through the window that she jumped through. He knew she jumped. Why he didn't go look for the kids then, I don't know. |
Anonymous
He went in the house first, found the broken window upstairs while trying to find everyone, saw her on the ground from there. |
Anonymous
+1 while incredibly disturbing to all of us because we want to feel like this could never happen to someone we love and there must be a clear sign, nothing presented seems contradictory to this potentially being psychosis. Psychosis isn’t always visible or slurring of words like they seem to be describing (saying she wasn’t slurring her words with the pharmacist etc) it can be silent and very scary in someone’s head. I also look up on googlemaps how far it is to a restaurant before deciding to get takeout all the time.. the fact that she was recently hospitalized with thoughts of harming herself and her children indicates a much more likely scenario that something wasn’t right, rather than she is weirdly and abnormally evil even though nothing prior in her life indicated that? It doesn’t make sense. |
Anonymous
Particularly with the window broken, the natural assumption would be that she had been pushed. People jumping out of windows don’t normally jump through them. |
Anonymous
Or, everything seemed normal. She may have plotted this in cold blood, or she may not have been in her right mind. We will see when the trial comes. I had a friend whose psychotic depression went unnoticed at first because she seemed basically normal and the oddities could be explained away. |
Anonymous
| The baby was eight months old. She was in the hospital when exactly? |