Every Key Moment From the Lindsay Clancy Trial, Blake Lively's Final Humiliation, and Brian Entin's Dispatch From Clancy Courtroom | Ep. 1386

August 26, 2026

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The most jarring moment in the Lindsay Clancy trial came when the courtroom heard the 911 call Patrick Clancy made after returning home. A reporter inside described “unearthly, guttural screams” as he discovered his three children—ages five, three, and eight months—strangled in the basement. Clancy himself broke down on the stand describing the call, and the judge cleared the courtroom when Clancy’s sobbing became uncontrollable. The children’s mother, Lindsay Clancy, sat in her wheelchair, sobbing quietly before the recess, then audibly broke down once the room emptied.

The Core Legal Question

The trial is not about whether Clancy killed her children—she admits she did. The question is whether she meets the legal standard for not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. In Massachusetts, that standard requires the defense to prove she lacked “substantial capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of her conduct” at the moment of the killings.

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What you'll learn

1 Timestamped Outline
2 (01:00) **Episode Opening and Topic Preview** - Megyn Kelly introduces the main segments: the Lindsay Clancy trial, Melissa Gilbert's hypocrisy, and Blake Lively's legal defeat
3 (03:39) **Lindsay Clancy Case: The Core Legal Question** - Kelly frames the central debate of whether Clancy was legally insane when she killed her three children
4 (07:55) **Clancy's Background and Deterioration** - Kelly recounts Clancy's history as a loving mother whose mental health declined after each birth
5 (12:53) **The Third Child and Medical Failures** - Kelly details how Clancy's condition worsened after giving birth to her third child, Callum, and the inadequate medical care she received
6 (15:38) **The Defense and Prosecution Strategies** - Kelly analyzes the courtroom dynamics between defense attorney Kevin Reddington and the prosecutor
7 (17:52) **Altruistic Philosophy Argument** - Kelly explains the defense's claim that Clancy killed her children out of a twisted sense of love, not hatred

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Guests on this episode

Megan Kelly

Show Notes

Megyn Kelly breaks down the most important takeaways from the Lindsay Clancy trial, including how difficult it is to find someone not guilty by reason of insanity, that even Jeffrey Dahmer's wasn't found to be insane legally, the truth about postpartum depression and psychosis, how Kevin Reddington, the very experienced lawyer representing Lindsay Clancy, is crucial to her defense, the way the public and jury might be reacting to the prosecutors, the significance of Clancy's sleep issues and obsession with her children's sleep schedule, why not every woman should be a mother, the way the medical system failed Clancy but that's not the end of the story, Clancy’s search history prior to the crime, the evidence that makes the defense argument of "psychosis" hard to believe, the questions about whether she could have been a sociopath, the most important witness testimony in the Clancy trial, the parts of the testimony from Clancy's ex-husband Patrick that helped her case and the parts that didn't, and more. Then Brian Entin, Senior National Correspondent for NewsNation, joins to discuss what he has witnessed in the Lindsay Clancy trial courtroom, the reaction from the jury to the case, Clancy's nearly emotionless presence, the dueling narratives about psychology presented in the trial, and more. Finally Megyn discusses the breaking news that Justin Baldoni will only have to pay $400,000 to Blake Lively despite her request for $8 million in legal fees, why this is the latest and final embarrassment for the actress, how Melissa Gilbert is being a hypocrite by talking about child actors after the passing of Hayden Panettiere, the growing list of allegations against her own husband Timothy Busfield, and more.

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