In the months before his children were killed, Patrick Clancy turned to the only place that seemed to answer at 2 a.m.: anonymous doctors and psychiatrists on Reddit. Post after post shows a husband frantically cataloging his wife Lindsay’s sudden weight loss, near-total insomnia, and intrusive thoughts about harming the very people she loved most. He questioned whether Zoloft had triggered something darker, whether bipolar disorder was being missed, whether these thoughts could turn into action.
Clinicians cycled through medications and short hospitalizations as Lindsay slipped further away. Programs rejected her as “too sick,” yet she repeatedly came home to three small children who trusted her completely. On January 24, 2023, that trust was shattered in a way that can never be undone. A mistrial has left the criminal case unresolved, but the couple’s joint lawsuit against her doctors asks a brutal, lingering question: how many warnings were enough?