"It's kind of a cultural obsession," said Boston-based criminal defense attorney Peter Elikann.The Massachusetts mother at the center of an ongoing murder trial for the killings of her three children is captivating the internet and social media.Lindsay Clancy, 35, faces three counts of first-degree murder after her three children, Cora, Dawson and Callan – all under 6 years old – were found strangled to death in the family's Duxbury home in 2023.POSTPARTUM MOM LINDSAY CLANCY ON TRIAL FOR MURDER BRINGS COURT TO A HALT WITH SUDDEN BREAKDOWNDefendant Lindsay Clancy listens during her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., on Thursday, July 30, 2026.(CJ Gunther/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)She doesn't deny killing them; Clancy and her defense team maintain she was suffering from ongoing postpartum psychosis at the time of their deaths.
She entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity."This isn't a case of having the blues, being down in the dumps and being depressed," Elikann, who is not involved in the trial, told Fox News Digital.Jurors take a court-supervised view during Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial on Friday, July 31, 2026.(Josh Reynolds for Daily Mail /Pool | Instagram)HEATED LINDSAY CLANCY COURTROOM EXCHANGE OVER 911 CALL, CRIME SCENE PHOTOS SETS STAGE FOR MOM’S MURDER TRIALHe explained that the world is just beginning to understand the impacts of postpartum psychosis – which differs from postpartum depression.He referenced the Andrea Yates case from the early 2000s in Houston, Texas where the mother drowned her five children in a bathtub and was found not guilty by reason of insanity."This psychosis is really kind of an emerging field," he says.FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON XSome TikTokers and social media sleuths are jumping to Clancy's defense, developing conspiracy theories and claiming she did not have the support she needed.Clancy's attorney is hoping to have one TikToker testify, asking the judge to allow Emily ...