What Patrick Clancy's Death Threats Say About Us

Lindsay Clancy's murder trial has an unusual feature: everyone in the courtroom agrees on the facts. Her own defense attorney told the jury she killed her three children. Prosecutors agree. Patrick Clancy testified about what he found in their Duxbury home. The surveillance footage, the phone records, the 911 call all line up. And yet a massive online audience insists the real story is something else. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of Nightbird, talks with Tony Brueski in a two-part conversation about what's driving people to reject a case that both sides have already settled. She explains why a tragedy of this scale creates demand for a villain bigger than a mother in psychosis — and why disproving a theory, point by point, tends to make it spread faster instead of dying out. Then she turns to the people posting the theories themselves, who describe real symptoms: shaking hands, lost sleep, rage over a family they've never met. Scott explains how the case functions as a container for something that has nothing to do with Duxbury — and what that's costing the people it's pointed at. Patrick Clancy, who buried three children and testified about finding them, is now getting death threats for a version of events neither the prosecution nor the defense has ever argued. Scott closes on what it would take to bring someone back from a conclusion they've already decided is true.
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