On Jan. 24, 2023, after running errands, Patrick Clancy returned home to a scene of unimaginable horror. Outside on the snowy lawn, he found his wife, Lindsay Clancy, bloodied and injured after jumping from the second-story window in a failed suicide attempt. When he went inside to look for his children, he discovered them in the basement. All three, Cora, Dawson, and Callan, had been strangled.

The trial of Lindsay Clancy is a regrettable showcase of the worst of humanity: A woman tasked with caring for and loving her own children allegedly took their young lives in an incomprehensibly brutal act of filicide. She is the one charged with committing the heinous acts, and she did not dispute it. But in the eyes of some, Patrick Clancy is guilty.