Ep. 1832 - No News Is Bad News. The Clancy Case Should Be Over By Now.

September 1, 2026

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For four days, a jury in Massachusetts has been unable to agree on whether Lindsay Clancy is guilty of murdering her three children. The facts of the case are not in dispute: Clancy strangled her children one by one with exercise bands, left them face down on the basement floor, and then made a superficial attempt on her own life by jumping out of a second-story window. The only question is whether she should be held criminally responsible. The argument that her defenders have advanced—that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and therefore not in control of her actions—has, in Matt Walsh’s telling, exposed a deeper cultural rot: a widespread belief among many women that they bear no moral or legal responsibility for their actions, and that this case is a test case for that doctrine.

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1 (00:00) **Opening: The Clancy Jury Deadlock** - Walsh frames the core scandal: a jury of nine women and three men cannot decide if murder is a crime in Massachusetts after four days of deliberation.
2 (02:22) **The Thought Experiment: What Would a Loving Parent Do?** - Walsh constructs a hypothetical to test the defense's claim that Clancy was a loving mother driven insane.
3 (06:14) **Clancy's Actual Behavior After the Murders** - Walsh contrasts the hypothetical with Clancy's documented actions, arguing they prove premeditation and a lack of remorse.
4 (08:22) **Post-Murder Behavior: Fighting for Freedom** - Walsh points to Clancy's actions in the years since the murders as definitive proof of her evil nature.
5 (11:44) **The Verdict on Clancy and the Jury's Failure** - Walsh delivers his judgment on Clancy and criticizes the jury's inability to reach a quick verdict.
6 (13:05) **The Legal Stakes: Insanity Plea and Massachusetts Law** - Walsh explains the potential outcomes and the legal framework for an insanity defense in Massachusetts.
7 (14:38) **The Feminist Contradiction** - Walsh attacks the feminist defense of Clancy as an argument for the patriarchy.

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Show Notes

The Clancy jury continues to deliberate. The Lindsay Clancy case will divide the sane and the insane.

Ep. 1832

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