“Any one of us who have dealt with mental health, anxiety, depression, postpartum — I think we just know that any one of us could be sitting in her chair,” Renee Kimball, the lead organizer of the rally, told a local news outlet. The gatherings were inspired by a call she posted on social media asking people to “stand in peace for Lindsay.” Online a kind of consensus certainty quickly emerged around the notion of Clancy’s victimization. Any serious reckoning with the central brutality — that Clancy strangled her daughter Cora, 5, and sons Dawson, 3, and Callen, 8 months, with exercise bands in their basement — has been subordinated to the compassion for her underlying anguish. In some corners of TikTok and Instagram, where charitable feeling for Clancy is at a high pitch, unhinged conspiracy theories — born perhaps of the challenge in believing that a mother could do such a thing — suggest that maybe it was someone else behind the killings, even if Clancy has admitted to them. On Etsy, there are at least 25 different kinds of pro-Clancy T-shirts available for sale. (“Team Lindsay!” reads one. The day before she posted her views on taking children to drag shows — a practice she called “disgusting” and a threat to youthful “development” — Tiffany Smiley, a former Republican Senate candidate in Washington, faced a backlash for comments she had made on Fox News and on Facebook. “My heart breaks for Lindsay Clancy,” she had written. “Our health care system has failed women.” Decades later, in advance of the Clancy trial, another high-profile case involving a potential insanity defense played out in Los Angeles, where Nick Reiner was accused of stabbing his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, to death in December. Despite his own history of mental illness, Nick Reiner has not received a similar outpouring of understanding in his defense. Reiner, who has pleaded not guilty to the murder charges, turned to a public defender when he could no longer pay his lawyer. Like Clancy, he had struggled with changes in his medication not long before his arrest, according to reporting on his health. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/style/lindsay-clancy-trial-support.html Nick Reiner, crazy, kills parents, no sympathy. Lindsay Clancy, crazy, kills 3 children - the health care system has failed women and is to blame says Tiffany Smiley, career politician.
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