The dark side of America’s obsession with the Lindsay Clancy trial

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  Hey there, a quick warning before we get into today's show,

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  this episode includes descriptions of violence against children, adult language, and mentions suicide.

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  please contact the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988.

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  This is In Conversation from Apple News.

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  I'm Shumita Basu.

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  Today, what Lindsay Clancy's murder case reveals about America.

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  For weeks, people across the country have been gripped by the trial of Lindsay Clancy,

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  the Massachusetts mother accused in 2023 of killing her three children,

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  5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan,

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  before allegedly attempting to end her own life.

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  Clancy's defense team didn't dispute that she killed her children,

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  but they've argued that she shouldn't spend the rest of her life in prison,

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  that she should be found not guilty because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis

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  after being prescribed more than a dozen medications for mental health conditions,

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  including depression and anxiety.

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  After 7 days of deliberation, a jury couldn't come to a unanimous decision, and it ended in a mistrial.

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  The trial was live-streamed and picked apart on social media

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  in a way that's so excruciatingly of this moment,

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  in part because it touched on so many high-stakes systems:

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