Crime Thread

is it within the realm of possibility that Mr. Clancy did the deed and she is such a nut she thought she did it? that she is covering for him with no complicity herself doesn't even seem remotely possible as the reaction of a woman and mother [to me]

google,
Key Evidence Presented [Clancy]

The Physical Acts: Investigators established that 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan were strangled using exercise bands in the family's basement on January 24, 2023.
The Setup: Prosecutors presented evidence that Clancy sent her husband, Patrick, out of the house to pick up takeout dinner and medicine for one of the children, alleging this was a calculated move to clear the house.
The Aftermath: Evidence showed that following the incident, Clancy attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window, which left her paralyzed from the waist down.

Quote: odiousgambit

is it within the realm of possibility that Mr. Clancy did the deed and she is such a nut she thought she did it? that she is covering for him with no complicity herself doesn't even seem remotely possible as the reaction of a woman and mother [to me]

google,
Key Evidence Presented [Clancy]

The Physical Acts: Investigators established that 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan were strangled using exercise bands in the family's basement on January 24, 2023.
The Setup: Prosecutors presented evidence that Clancy sent her husband, Patrick, out of the house to pick up takeout dinner and medicine for one of the children, alleging this was a calculated move to clear the house.
The Aftermath: Evidence showed that following the incident, Clancy attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window, which left her paralyzed from the waist down.

My unexpert opinion from looking at the different pictures at better times* concludes those children were happy and well-cared for prior to their death.

Also, hard to imagine both of them wouldn't have given away clues to others around them, if children were a burden to them prior to the immediate run-up to the homicide. Remember Susan Smith backing her car into a lake with her kids inside?

*better times = any other time but current I guess.

The darkside of motherhood gets unexplored until something like this happens. I guess we have to accept that as strong as the instinct for 'mothering' is, there is also burden resentment as a dark, secret suppressed feeling fully defeated 99.999+% of the time ... not counting lessor events short of murder

if you look for it in books and old movies, there was a time before better birth control when people could express openly negative feelings about the burden of children ... without suffering too much opprobrium