Lindsay Clancy case eerily similar to bipolar Irish nurse who killed her kids 3 years to the day before Mass. killer mom
Three years to the day before Lindsay Clancy killed her three children and tried to kill herself, another nurse slaughtered her own three kids in an eerily similar case in Ireland. Diedre Morley, a 44-year-old pediatric nurse in Dublin, smothered her three children to death with duct tape and plastic bags and then unsuccessfully tried to kill herself on Jan.24, 2020.
That same day in 2023, Clancy, a labor and delivery nurse, strangled her three children before swallowing pills, cutting her wrists and neck, and jumping from a second-story window of her Massachusetts home in a failed suicide.Morley was suffering from bipolar disorder, according to a psychiatrist who testified for the defense at her 2021 trial — a diagnosis Clancy, 36, also at one point received.“A lot of people online are comparing the two cases and people have made comments about Deirdre, the kids and me,” Morley’s estranged husband, Andrew McGinley, told the Irish Mirror in a recent interview.“They’re often just doing it just to be controversial and get a handful of likes.”McGinley said he empathized with both Lindsay and Patrick Clancy.“I empathize with them both in that people are choosing sides. That’s what happened in our case,” he added.
“People are speculating and posting lies online.It’s just not right.
The facts are the facts.”Online conspiracists have even made wild leaps to tie Patrick Clancy to the Morley case.“I can’t get past the similarities, except for the husband.The husband here struggled hardcore with the loss,” one woman on Facebook said of the Irish case.
“But is it possible Pat seen this story and tried to recreate it?”Patrick Clancy’s attorney Howard Cooper has lashed out at the “escalating campaign of misinformation” being waged by unhinged influencers and attention-seeking “minor celebrities,” telling Boston 25 News, “This campaign, now fueled by insatiable media coverage, remains at a fever pitch and has resulted in real-...