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To women, Lindsay Clancy isn’t a monster — she’s living proof of their worst fears

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Lindsay Clancy committed the worst crime imaginable when she killed her three children. 

She was disturbingly methodical about it, tying an exercise band to a door in the basement of the family home and strangling each of her babies, Cora, then 5, Dawson, then three, and Callan, then just seven months, one at a time. 

How did she not stop, when they must have protested with fear and incomprehension? 

And then, even more disturbingly, left her three children — her youngest son not yet dead — alone in the last moments of their desperately short lives, as she went upstairs to try and take her own life. 

The only explanation is that she is a monster, of course. 

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Or perhaps it isn’t. 

In the mass of social discourse, it’s impossible to miss that many women — especially mothers — do not accept that Clancy constructed a perfect-seeming life only to deliberately destroy it. 

Instead, they believe that while Clancy’s crime was heinous, it was a tragedy caused by a horrific health system failure. 

To those women, Clancy isn’t a poster girl, or a hero, or even a collective sainted “victim.” She is the living, breathing embodiment of every one of their greatest fears.

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