Three innocent children were needlessly slaughtered.

People are furious. Disgusted. Demanding justice.

It's natural for them to look for someone – anyone, perhaps – to blame.

Lindsay Clancy, 36, is enduring the absolute freaking horror show of the second week of her murder trial. She's the one, according to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, that is responsible for her children's deaths.

She's pleaded not guilty on an insanity defense. Her team says she's a victim here, too: allegedly overmedicated and undertreated by a negligent healthcare system that plopped her on the prescription drug treadmill and said run.

The final verdict, of course, is for a jury to decide, however, over the past few weeks amateur online investigators have claimed to have found the real villain in this twisted tragedy: Lindsay's now ex-husband Patrick, 37.

The family of five had lived in the picturesque hamlet of Duxbury – colloquially known as 'Deluxe-bury' – 35 miles southeast of Boston. Crime scene photos show the children's playfully decorated rooms, smiling pictures on the walls and a sign hanging over three-year-old Dawson's bed, reading 'It's A Wonderful Life.'

Could anyone really have known that something unimaginably awful was about to happen?

Over the past few weeks amateur online investigators have claimed to have found the real villain in the twisted Lindsay Clancy tragedy: Her now ex-husband Patrick

Lindsay, according to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is responsible for the death of her three children in January 2023

Just a few weeks after a five-day voluntary stay at McLean Hospital, a psychiatric facility, in January 2023, Lindsay asked her husband to run out to the pharmacy and pick up dinner.

She was having 'one of her best days,' he testified last week. Lindsay and the kids had built a snowman in the yard and worked on art projects. She was, he thought, more optimistic.

Most of America knows what happened next.

While Patrick was out of the house, Lindsay strangled her children – Cora, 5, Dawson and Callan, her baby, just eight-months-old – with exercise bands. Then she slashed her wrists and neck and jumped from a second story window, severing her spine, paralyzing herself from the waist down.

When Patrick returned from his errands, he found the house eerily quiet, the master bedroom door locked and his wife bleeding in the snow. He called 911 and waited for paramedics to arrive.

Only then did he look in the basement.

'She killed the f***ing kids!' he screamed into the phone.

It's now clear to me that Lindsay had been on a multi-month, perhaps even years-long, emotional rollercoaster, suffering from severe mental illness and, yes, postpartum psychosis.

None of the psychiatric heavy artillery, from Zoloft to Prozac and Seroquel to Trazodone, appeared to have made any real difference for her. A civil complaint filed by Lindsay against her medical providers claims she was already exhibiting signs of bipolar disorder in 2020, largely driven by anxiety over returning to work in a Boston hospital, as a labor and delivery nurse.

Her doctors and nurse have denied any wrongdoing.

Lindsay was cratering. Her mind reportedly riddled by insomnia, anxiety, delusion and suicidal thoughts. And, to his credit, Patrick was throwing up red flags.

According to a lawsuit he filed against Lindsay's doctors, he told them that she was suicidal and that her medication was turning her into a 'zombie.' According to the Massachusetts police search warrant affidavit, he told friends that she was suffering from being on too many drugs.

But who, the denizens of online chatrooms are now asking, would ever leave a child alone with her?

The answer: Plenty of people.

'I observed a wonderful mom who loved her kids,' the family's nanny Elaine Rossi told the jury last week. 'She was concerned about their safety and Callan eating and sleeping. She was a wonderful mother.'

Rossi also saw signs that Lindsay was in crisis, had lost a lot of weight, couldn't sleep. And she said Lindsay told her she had 'postpartum.'

That's not enough for the trolls on Reddit and TikTok who want to place the blame squarely on Patrick's shoulders.

'Something is really off about this guy!' one nameless crime-nerd posted last week. 'He looks and answers questions like a rehearsed sociopath.'

If anyone is a 'sociopath', it's people who spend time writing posts like that.

Who among us is fit to judge a guy who has lost everything?

And Patrick's performance on the stand is far from the only thing that these attention-hungry ghouls are sniffing around.

Within months of this life-shattering horror, Patrick had relocated hundreds of miles away to Manhattan. After that he started dating again and by April 2026, more than three years after everything fell apart, he was married for the second time.

His new wife Dr Rachel Danis, many online have noted, bears a striking resemblance to Lindsay. She also happens to make her living in reproductive medicine, like Lindsay.

While Patrick was out of the house, Lindsay strangled her children with exercise bands. Then she slashed her wrists and neck and jumped from a second story window

Patrick Clancy's new wife Dr Rachel Danis (left), as many online have noted, bears a striking resemblance to Lindsay. She also happens to make her living in reproductive medicine, like Lindsay

If you're feeling a little queasy taking this in, you're not alone. I also initially recoiled at thought of a man moving on, perhaps too quickly. But then, I thanked my lucky stars and rightly concluded that no one should sit in judgement of Patrick Clancy.

He is not on trial. No ending to this gruesome tale will ever be satisfying or just. Why make it worse by embracing every cruel thought and conspiracy?

Let the justice system serve its purpose.

And to the trolls, move out of mom's basement already.